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TIL cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis or increase your risk

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OoN4 TIL that ‘eroteme’ is an obsolete term for 'question mark’, and 'ecphoneme’ is an obsolete term for 'exclamation mark’.
19l7 TIL Genetic study points to Indigenous Australians as the oldest continuous society on Earth
PYmAV TIL that a crossbreed between a cow and buffalo is called a Beefalo
Wkb68 TIL The first-ever nationally televised political convention was the 1952 Republican convention in Chicago
lXDB TIL on August 5, 1944, one of the biggest jail-breaks in history involved hundreds of Japanese POWs attempting to escape an Australian prisoner camp. The Japanese considered the Australians weak because they treated the prisoners well. 234 of the Japanese were killed and another 108 wounded.