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TIL: (‴) are the symbol for the line unit; similarily how (′) meats feet and (″) means inch.

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PQyG TIL that Pumpernickle Bread means Devil’s Fart
0J9p TIL the US government runs a bounty/informant website called “Rewards for Justice”
PYO1L TIL Hayao Miyazaki withdrew from retirement for the 7th time and announced he was making a film so that his grandson knows that ‘Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving this film behind because he loves you.’
OoDna TIL of professional "fired men" that were used as department store scapegoats who were fired several times a day to please costumers who were disgruntled about some error
188X TIL that a Mongol ruler had “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I” inscribed on his casket. On the day a Soviet anthropologist exhumed his body the largest military invasion in history was launched against the USSR.