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Til that equivalents of earthquakes on Mars are called marsquakes

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j6VWp TIL of Xicolatada, a festival in a French village dedicated to the tradition of drinking Hot Chocolate as a hang over cure after drinking on the Feast of the Assumption.
J16m4 TIL that Wing Chun kung-fu is allegedly named after Yim Wing Chun, a legendary 17th century woman who was taught the martial art by a Shaolin Buddhist nun to defeat a local bully who was trying to force Yim to marry him
b4G0 TIL: in 1998 Microsofts “DirectX” team pitched a new gaming console known as the “directXbox”. Later shortened to “Xbox”.
gMpy7 TIL Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter was an aspiring mycologist when the prestigious Linnean Society rejected her submitted paper on fungi reproduction because she was a woman. 100 years later (and 54 years after her death), they formally apologized for their sexist treatment of her work
LQ5Qm TIL that 90% of video game sales in 2022 were digital.