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TIL In golf, an albatross (a hole score of three under par) is so rare that between 1970 and 2003, only 84 such shots (averaging about 2.5 per year) were recorded on the PGA Tour.

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MekL8 TIL of Jessica O. Matthews, a Nigerian-American entrepreneur. At the age of 19 she invented the Soccket, which is a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy and can provide three hours of light after half an hour of play.
4Xv6 TIL South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers
j6VgQ TIL that spoofing (finance) is when spoofers post a large number of limit orders on one side of the limit order book to make other market participants believe that there is pressure to sell or to buy the asset.
grK88 TIL in terms of endurance, there is no living animal that can beat a human; basic human biology makes humans the ultimate runners
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