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TIL "grawlixes" are typographical symbols standing in for profanities in comic strips, appearing in dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue.

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b1B9 TIL the Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day resulting in the deaths of 847,000–2,500,000 civilians, and 1,484,000–3,886,026 soldiers.
O8AY TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”
4koEg TIL that in 1986, a French woman invested several months of her time to gain the necessary qualifications to operate a helicopter. She then proceeded to rent one, fly it over a prison, and successfully extract her husband, a convicted bank robber, from the prison's roof.
1MGX TIL that 50 Years Ago, NASA astronauts smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space on a mission to test newly invented space food. Congress was so upset it launched an investigation.
E1WnX TIL Scientists have turned spinach into beating human heart tissue