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TIL Indianapolis Motor Speedway's infield has a nine hole golf course.

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wLPxM TIL that a picture of a giant robot helping Russia revolutionaries storm the winter palace in 1917, was accidentally used in an Australian history exam. Some students wasted time in trying to figure out what the giant robot was, thinking it was a statue of a Russian politician or a battleship.
gMZk4 TIL that when the Beatles met Elvis, they were amazed by the device he had that could change channels on the TV from across the room
bbgE TIL James Barry (born 1789-1799 as Margaret Ann Bulkleychose) chose to live as a man so that he could become a surgeon. With his sex only being discovered after his death, Barry was the first qualified female British surgeon known, anticipating the next female physician by over 50 years.
e0PQg TIL Miss September 2017 Jessica Wall was shocked to learn that she was the last Playmate picked by Hugh Hefner before his passing. Hefner picked the Playmates for the magazine since the first issue in 1953, which featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover
KRNB TIL Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film’s net profits but never received his share due to hollywood accounting which posits that the movie lost money