W7X8Y TIL Throughout Australia, there are approximately 400 courses that have greens comprised of oiled sand or some other similar material, usually due to the prohibitive cost of maintaining grass greens by small clubs in rural areas.
9w5mG TIL that Ancient Egyptians believed that boys could menstruate, becoming men. In reality, they were suffering from a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis. It's caused by blood flukes, parasitic flatworms, that cause stomach pain, diarrhea, and blood in the urine.
nWyOb TIL there has only been 25 battles that involved opposing battleships since 1904. Three of those involved the USN, in which the US won all three decisively.
4kmG5 TIL we shed .4 oz of skin per day
x67Yw TIL that 16.3 million of the 16.4 million Americans who served in WW2 are dead
5V1pp TIL Sam Peckinpah director of 'The Wild Bunch' intended the audience to be horrified by the violence of the film, and was instead troubled by their enjoyment of it.
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j6yWa TIL that the heavily disputed territory of Trieste was divided in 1954 between Italy and Yugoslavia. The city and surrounding area stayed with Italy while 'Zone B' was divided up between Slovenia (giving it coastline) and Croatia within Yugoslavia itself.
0d1KL TIL during a hunting trip in 1913 the race car driver Camille Jenatzy hid behind a bush, made animal noises and was promptly shot by a friend, he died in a car on the way to hospital, fulfilling his own prediction that he would die in a Mercedes
gr54b TIL in the Siege of Leningrad, Nobel laureate economist and mathematician Leonid Kantorovich calculated an optimal distance between cars on the Road of Life based on temperature and ice thickness to ensure they didn't sink into Lake Ladoga. He walked between cars on the lake to ensure they complied.
b6yAQ TIL ancient Persians would debate important matters while both drunk and sober. If a decision was approved in both states, the decision would be held. If not, it would be dismissed.
QN9Ye TIL Bolivia has experienced more than 190 coups d'état and revolutions since its independence was declared in 1825