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TIL, while The Master Golf Tournament tickets cost between $100 to $140, they resell easily for over $10,000.

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GA4r1 TIL that Cat Stevens released an “electro”-style instrumental in 1977 called “Was Dog a Doughnut”. The track sounded very different from his earlier work, and was widely sampled in the early hip-hop scene. The title parodies an article published around that time, titled “Was God an Astronaut?”
9YAVm TIL the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria wasn’t a great loss of historical texts. The majority of the library’s scrolls had been copied for libraries in Persia, Byzantium, and Iraq; Its believed the study of these texts helped form universities through Europe in the Early Middle Ages
4XrEa Today I Learned You can make an egg bigger then before.
o5jo TIL the Peking University in Beijjing has developed “smart tags”; small inexpensive tabs that stick to food packaging and change color when it goes bad.
Vewp TIL Most greenland sharks are blind due to a 3cm long parasite that latches onto their eye. The sharks have not evolved a defence because the parasite is bioluminescent and is theorised to attract prey to the shark’s head