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TIL that the symbols used to censor swear words are called grawlixes

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wRgo TIL There are nearly as many $100 bills as there are $1 bills in currency today, each about 6x as common as the $10 bill.
165b7 TIL Cher's "Believe," released in 1998, was the first song to utilize Auto-Tune's now ubiquitous vocal warping vocal effects that experienced massive commercial success
K78J TIL an estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.
16rkO TIL Actress and part time Jeopardy host Mayim Bialik was so in demand as a child actress after the movie Beaches that she was cast as the lead in two competing TV shows at the same time, Blossom for NBC and Molloy for Fox .
eW7E TIL that 16-20% of google searches each day have never been searched before