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Til: The "X" in Xbox game console refers to relying on the directx api and was choosen by the directx team at microsoft

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9Xk7 TIL that shortly before 2 am on Feb. 6, 1858, over 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a fistfight which only ended when a hairpiece was ripped off one of the combatants, causing the melee to dissolve into “a chorus of laughs and jeers.”
Zpwdo TIL the Eiffel Tower has been painted nearly twenty times. It’s been shades of red, yellow, brown, and grey, and has never been painted black.
QN75p TIL that in 1953, Swanson overestimated the number of frozen turkeys that it would sell on Thanksgiving by 260 tons. The company decided to slice up the extra meat and repackage it--creating the first ever TV dinner.
e0156 TIL that in 2014, China banned puns, saying that they create "cultural and linguistic chaos"
E1mrP TIL - hares are Jack and Jills. Male hares are called Jacks and females are called Jills.