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TIL the Dragon Ball anime is now 37 years old
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TIL that in the US the Rod of Asclepius, symbol of the deity associated with healing and medicine, is often confused with the staff of the god Hermes, the caduceus.
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TIL that in 2017 astronomers detected 100 Earths' worth of gold being forged in space. They revealed the first-ever detection of two neutron stars colliding in space. "You smash these two things together at one-third the speed of light, and that's how you make gold," said astronomer Duncan Brown.
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TIL Medieval copyists wrote the Latin word io (meaning "hurray") at the end of a sentence to indicate joy. Over time, the i moved above the o, and the o became smaller, forming the modern exclamation point.
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TIL that text messages have been sent electrically since at least 1774 when George-Louis LeSage sent static charges between two rooms in his house via 26 wires, one for each letter of the alphabet.
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TIL that Mr. Toad has a headstone in the pet cemetery at the Haunted Mansion in Magic Kingdom at Disney World as a tribute to the now extinct Mr. Toad's Wild Ride