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Til that equivalents of earthquakes on Mars are called marsquakes

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5Yk6D TIL Frederic John Walker aka Johnnie Walker was the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during WWII credited with 17 U boats destroyed. Walker's last duty was protecting the fleet from U-boats during the Normandy landing before his natural death attributed to overwork and exhaustion.
e04Yn TIL in the 2002 Xbox game Steel Battalion, if your mech takes too much damage, the player needs to eject when prompted. If they don't, his character will die, and the game deletes their saved data, making them start from the beginning.
1aKnr TIL Peanuts are one of the rare plants that sow their own seeds in a process called Geocarpy
P18PG Today I learned: A stray Dog in Istanbul, named Boji, uses Turkish public transportation by himself.
gMmrb TIL The oldest house structure in the world is the 15,000 years old one made of mammoth bones found near Kyiv, Ukraine