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TIL that the @ symbol is over 500 years old and was used by medieval merchants to mean "at the price of"

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M7LOK TIL A US doctor gained fame for transplanting goat testicles into men as a cure for impotence and to boost virility
ePYE TIL that James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Sean Connery’s casting, saying, “He’s not what I envisioned of James Bond looks.” on top of Connery being Scottish. But after seeing Dr. No he was so impressed, he updated Bond’s bio to where he was given Scottish (and Swiss) descent.
gMDa8 TIL before becoming Coldplay's manager and a member of the group, Phil Harvey was studying classics at the University of Oxford.
e40g TIL the Chernobyl power plant didn’t go completely off line until the year 2000
xV67 Today I Learned the word Man is gender neutral and the words Wifman and Werman were used for females and males respectively. Werman is where we get the word Were-Wolf from.