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TIL on iOS, you can hold down the 0 key and it you can select the degree (°) symbol!

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PQRe TIL John Wayne once played Genghis Khan in a movie. He didn’t change his voice in any way.
4kX9b TIL that during the Civil War, Union troops stumbled upon Confederate battle plans at a freshly-abandoned campsite, revealing that the enemies were nearby and vulnerably split. Union Commander McClellan was too cautious to react and Robert E. Lee gathered his scattered troops once he was alerted.
vP4d4 TIL China has won the last 4 International Mathematical Olympiads
W7XKY TIL Formula 1 race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated death 3 times. In 2001 he was in a horrific crash and lost both legs. In 2020 he had a massive head injury and was in a medically induced coma. Finally, he had severe smoke inhalation from a house fire in 2022.
J1lRk TIL that Lithuanian book smugglers smuggled Lithuanian-language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuania, defying the Russian Empire's 1864 ban on such literature. The Russians were trying to "russify" Lithuanians by forcing them to use the Cyrillic alphabet, and finally gave up in 1904.