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

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v11QR TIL that no Lutheran has ever been elected President of the United Sates.
wmB1 TIL the scent of rain is called “Petrichor”, and it occurs when rain hits dry earth.
N7kl8 TIL After the Watergate scandal broke, Richard Nixon still won the 1972 election by winning 49 out of 50 states for a whopping 520 electoral votes.
yQZ9w TIL that President Chester Arthur's grandson Gavin was described as "an Ivy League dropout, an Irish Republican Army activist, an experimental-film actor, a commune leader, a gold prospector, a teacher at San Quentin, and a bisexual sexologist/astrologer."
ne6OG TIL when you involuntarily yell over loud noise, that’s an example of the Lombard effect (the involuntary tendency of speakers to increase their vocal effort when speaking in loud noise to enhance the audibility of their voice).