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TIL that it snows metal on Venus

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VMOKp TIL the father of billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, Roy Henry Steyer, was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
W7yVX TIL women could only play golf on Sunday afternoons at Pine Valley Golf Club (consistently ranked as one of the best courses in the world) until they changed the rule in 2021.
VMe18 TIL Karate changed it's spelling from 唐手 to 空手, changing it's meaning from "Chinese hand" to "empty hand" (both are pronounced karate). This was because of Japanese militarism, they wanted to conceal the fact that it developed under the influence of Chinese kung fu.
LQkEV TIL McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald is known as "Donald McDonald" in Japan due to the Japanese language lacking a proper "R" sound
KO9aJ TIL that the only existing footage of the first plane hitting the tower during 9/11 was only recorded because 2 people wanted to make a documentary on what it was like to be a firefighter in New York City, and when the cameraman heard the plane, he pointed it at the tower, and captured the crash.