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TIL it’s spelled “champ at the bit,” not “chomp at the bit.”

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7pL7 TIL North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il claimed he finished a par 72 golf course in just 34 strokes, managing a world record five holes-in-one, making him the best golfer in the history of the world. It was also the first time he has ever golfed.
69AVZ TIL There is sexually explicit cave art (NSFW)
G4g1 TIL that Target has a customer tracking and marketing algorithm / database so accurate it discovered a teen pregnancy.
X0Q9Q TIL the Australian Tim Tam chocolate biscuit, inspired by Britain’s Penguin biscuit and created by food technologist Ian Norris, was named after “Tim Tam” , the horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby when Ross Arnott attended the race and first appeared on supermarket shelves in 1964
e0Jok TIL: The Queen of England always carries one of her two hundred purses on outings, and the way she holds them has a very specific meaning. For example, if she’s at dinner and places it on the table, that means she wants to end the event in the next five minutes.