1. Mark Twain was born, and died, during visits from Halley’s Comet.
2. The “paragraph mark,” ¶, actually has a name. It’s called a “pilcrow.”
There. Now don’t you feel smart!
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Actually, learning about the pilcrow IS very cool, haha. Thanks!
Now you can drop it in conversation and act all surprised when someone doesn’t know what it means. 😉