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TIL: Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five and only four condors have ever been recorded:

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ANQmg TIL the singer building in Manhattan, which was one of the most recognized buildings in new York city, and used to be the world's tallest, was demolished in the '60s. at the time the tallest building to be purposely demolished until 2019
jNwMv TIL About Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Washington State that is the 14.5 million year old cast of an early Rhino ancestor created when basalt lava slowly covered the corpse floating upside down in an ancient lake found 300 feet up the side of a cliff.
4nJ5 TIL that beer brewing was officially introduced into the early Australian colony in a bid to reduce the level of drunkeness (mainly from rum)
LkalP TIL that Jill Dando, presenter for the BBC "unsolved crime" series Crimewatch, was murdered during her time as host for the show. Crimewatch reconstructed her murder and a suspect was convicted. However, the conviction was overturned, he was acquitted upon retrial, and the case remains unsolved.
PYBxO TIL the song "November Rain" was left off of Guns N' Roses major breakthrough album "Appetite for Destruction" at the last minute, as "Sweet Child of Mine" was thought to be enough of a ballad for one album.