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You may have come across an underappreciated punctuation mark that is actually relatively young in the grand scheme of things and wondered what it was and how to properly use it.  The interrobang is denoted as ‽ or ?! or !?.  It was invented by Martin K. Speckter in 1962. It is used to show high excitement, a rhetorical question, frustration, or befuddlement.  Therefore, some examples of its proper use would include the following:

• Who took my lunch from the office refrigerator‽
• What do you mean – you don’t like my new haircut‽
• What‽ A car that drives itself‽

As you can see, this handy little punctuation mark is the combination of a question mark, which ends an interrogative sentence, and an exclamation point, which is sometimes referred to as a bang in the printing industry.  Try introducing this into some of your writing where appropriate.