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How many times in all your years of attending school did you use the division symbol in some sort of math problem? Like, what, a billion? Did you know that the symbol has an actual meaning? Because I didn’t. And neither, apparently, did thousands and thousands of other people.
Why was this fact never taught to us? Was there some kind of conspiracy among teachers and the American educational system to keep this a secret? I’m not kidding here. I want to know.
Anyway, thanks to one Twitter user, Abdul Dremali, the secret meaning behind the division symbol has now been revealed. Ready to have your mind blown?
i just found out that the division symbol (÷) is just a blank fraction with dots replacing the numerator and denominator. oh my god.
— abdul 🌌📷 (@Advil) September 11, 2017
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IT’S SO SIMPLE AND MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. WHY WAS I NEVER TOLD THIS BEFORE?!
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Over 1,800 comments, 55,000 retweets and almost 145,000 likes prove that people all over the world have been completely shook by this revelation…
MY LIFE IS A LIE
— Will (@tao_of_llama) September 11, 2017
Can't handle this. I'm still dealing with the reality that Natalie Imbruglia's rendition of "Torn" is a cover.
— Lawrence Nichols (@LRNichols) September 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheRealYTJ/status/907416472942551040
So I just finished my daily quota of introspection and ready to sleep. Now I have to do it all over again. Where do I even begin? 😱
— Vinoth (@starstuffonadot) September 12, 2017
Witchcraft.
— Jessamyn West (@jessamyn) September 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/suburbia_em/status/907093427787005952
I'm pretty sure teachers don't know this or we'd all learn it as a child instead of figuring it out late in life. I was about 30 when I did.
— Paul Potiki (@GuanoLad) September 11, 2017
Wait, what?? This is WAY bigger than learning the little arrow by the gas symbol in your car dash tells you which side the gas cap is on.
— Kyle (@kyle_141) September 12, 2017
When you question all of your education. pic.twitter.com/ukBCeLlSTF
— Nicole (@chocolatekiss1) September 12, 2017
Where have you been?
— F (@solklore) September 11, 2017
Seriously.
Then, as if that wasn’t crazy enough, Dremali’s tweet proceeded to spawn a whole bunch more mind-blowing facts…
https://twitter.com/derwinmcgeary/status/907284467672371201
https://twitter.com/valrus/status/907475440343773184
Another one, never saw it till I knew it. The power icon on all electronics, the line though a circle is actually binary, 1 is on 0 is off
— SP Aimes (@SPAimes) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/YS/status/907709050196041729
— DC Prox 🌈✊ ACAB 🇵🇸 (@DrProximo) September 11, 2017
also the arrow in amazon goes from A to Z… meaning the sell everything from A to Z!!! pic.twitter.com/QDMXUYNig9
— ben (@ben_riddoxh) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/SeaFaery87/status/907470155583823873
Look what you have done, Abdul. Look what you have done.
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