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TIL that all the golf holes in Wii sports are 3D versions of NES golf

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GAm9N TIL about Alex Zanardi, an Italian racing driver. In 2001, as a result of a crash during a race, he lost both of his legs. After the crash, he took up handcycling, a form of paralympic cycling, and won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics
D1Dav TIL that the Portuguese Man o’ War is actually technically not a jellyfish. It’s actually a bunch of smaller organisms that can’t survive on their own and work together to function as one animal.
X0prk TIL in 1973, a Harvard astrophysicist suggested that we won't discover more advanced civilizations because they don't want us to find them and have the technology to ensure we never do. They have also set aside our planet as a zoo wherein they can observe us. He coined this idea the Zoo Hypothesis.
51XD TIL there is a small town in Australia which has a decommissioned submarine on display in a park, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ visit to the country community members knitted yellow wool squares to cover the entire sub.
GAnv5 TIL The internet was born in 1969. Which happens to be the last year that the Beatles performed in public.