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TIL the PGA Tour is a non-profit entity

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
BrLYk TIL Jason of Friday the 13th fame, didn't earn his iconic hockey mask look until the 3rd entry into the series.
RaD8 TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug
0wdQj TIL that the U.S. allows foods and ingredients that are banned in other countries such as: synthetic growth hormones, arsenic, food dye, and Olestra
KOArQ TIL that cheese making is ancient and predates recorded history. The earliest evidence of cheese making is 5500 BCE, in Kujawy, Poland, where fat molecules were found on ancient strainers.