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TIL it’s “mother lode”, not “mother load”.

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A9od TIL Ng Mui, a legendary Shaolin nun, met a teenage girl named Yim Wing-Chun who was being harrassed into marrying a thug and taught her how to defend herself. Hundreds of years later, Bruce Lee would learn what is now called Wing-Chun, a form which was specifically made for a woman by a woman.
WkMmd TIL ... All non herbal teas (white, green, black, oolong, pu-erh, etc.) come from the same plant Camellia sinesis. Though different varietals in the plant have developed among different regions, teas from the same region only differ by oxidation and not the leaf itself.
pYJxQ TIL about the "Pig War" of 1859, an almost-war between the U.S. and Britain over U.S.-Canadian boundaries, all started by the shooting of a pig!
GAm04 TIL former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is the sixth oldest father in human recorded history, after he conceived a child at the age of 89 in 2020.
m1dWP TIL that there is an island in New York called “Just Enough Room,” where there’s just enough room for a tree and a house.