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Originally Posted by jaye
Give me your fun facts. They can be about you, the world around us, useless and interesting information, whatever.
Did you know the hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe?
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the "octo-" prefix refers to the eight points on the popular symbol, but the "thorpe" remains a mystery. One theory claims that it comes from the Old English word for "village," based on the idea that the symbol looks like a village surrounded by eight fields!
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When I read it the first time, it made think of it as a dinosaur name
