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TIL multiple astronomers have reported observing a moon orbiting Venus which hasn’t been seen since 1770

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R6Zj TIL that movable type capital letters were stored in a separate drawer or case from the regular letters. The capital letters in the “upper case” and the others in the “lower case” and are hence called so.
JQXk TIL all Hass avocados (the ones bought in stores) are descendants from a single mother tree, which was grown from an unknown seed bought in California in 1926.
PYKLG TIL During development of the game Wing Commander, a memory error would occur when exiting the game. They didn't have enough time to fix the error before shipping so they changed the error message to "Thanks for playing Wing Commander."
yVZrw TIL that readiness potentials are a kind electroencephalogram signal that appears before the intention to perform actions, so they were thought to predict awareness of voluntary movement. But this recent study have found them also before the partecipants decided not to move.
pYQZA TIL that an "are" is a unit of measurement. It's 1/100th of a Hectare