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TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".

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64rJ TIL 56% of people in Vermont describe themselves as nonreligious.
X0BMr TIL Alfred Hitchcock was jailed at the age of 6 because his father sent him to a police station with a note attached to his clothes requesting the jailing after Alfred committed some childish misdeed.
eY6L TIL despite being divisible by 4, the year 2100 won’t be a leap year, this happens every century if the year is not divisible by 400
oXe7 TIL The term lesbian comes from an ancient greek island called Lesbos. She is believed to be the earliest documented gay or bisexual woman and was born in 615 BC. Sappho was a poet and a playwright but her works were destroyed in the fire that burned down the Library of Alexandria
YjJZ TIL There’s a book that contains a million random numbers and little else. Published in 1955, it was an important work in the field of statistics and randomization.