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TIL that "!?" and "?!" have a name - interrobang. It was proposed by the head of an advertising company, Martin K. Speckter.

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6Qpw TIL Canada and Spain almost fought a war against each other in … 1994
16Z67 TIL of the Polynesian legend of Mahuika – goddess of fire and the grandmother of Māui. She married Auahi-roa (a comet) and their children were the fingernails of fire on Mahuika's hand. Years later, Māui retrieved the fingernails and planted them in the trees used for making fire.
mxJPP TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
W70WA TIL of a phylum of animals called Priapuldia (Little Priapus, the Roman god of fertility) AKA "Penis Worms, enjoy!
Pw7e TIL that a Colombian program called kangaroo care, where prematurely born babies are kept in constant skin-to-skin contact with parents, has shown success over hospital incubators in reducing infant mortality.