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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.

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QMKE TIL Scientists are working on a “GPS” that works in space. It uses x-ray’s emitted by pulsars to get a position anywhere, accurate to 5km. Its called XNAV.
8ekLX TIL that in the US state of Florida, tyramine is a Schedule I drug, illegal in “any material [at] any quantity,” making most wines, cheeses, and chocolates, among other things, technically illegal.
XEXbj TIL da Vinci was given a vineyard as payment for making The Last Supper, which was bombed in WW2, and the DNA of those vines is being used to recreate the wines he had
awwDy TIL indigenous Australian suicide has increased from 5% of total Australian suicide in 1991, to 50% in 2010, despite making up only 3% of the total Australian population.
Brmnr TIL in 1987 Iraq attacked the United States ship USS Stark and killed 37 sailors