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TIL in addition to 23 gold medals Michael Phelps also holds the record for the longest televised putt in history.

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NDJ1 TIL: President George Washington was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. He was unsuccessful in obtaining a royal commission but received a decree granting the British militia the same executive powers as commissioned officers. He is the only U.S President to have served the Crown.
wLdb1 TIL In 1980's a family owned a ceramics factory in California. It was soon uncovered as an illegal creamatorium when a passerby recognised the smell of burning bodies from their time in Auschwitz.
VMLOm TIL Instant ramen was invented by Momofuku Ando in 1958 and. in 2000, voted Japan's greatest invention of the 20th century by the Japanese themselves.
awjgb TIL a dog was once inducted as an official crew member of a Norwegian fighting ship during World War 2. The canine was known for breaking up fights amongst his crew-mates by putting his paws on their shoulders and calming them down. The much-loved dog was buried with full military honors.
9wYg7 TIL there are measure for diversity of exports a country produces and their ubiquity, or the number of the countries able to produce them (and those countries’ complexity) called Economic Complexity Index. Japan currently holds first place.