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TIL that in Japan, avid golfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the course. They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy gifts and drinks for their friends. The policy covers them for a party worth up to $4,900.

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x7b7 TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger has killed 509 people on screen throughout his entire career as an actor- and the “White Death”, Simo Häyhä, the sniper with the most confirmed kills in any major war, has killed only FOUR FEWER real people.
kOeom TIL a full suit of medieval armour weighed from 45 to 55 lbs, actually less than a modern infantryman would carry in equipment.
DQa4r TIL Men are like apes when competing for status
96x6 TIL NSYNC’s “I’ll Never Stop” is the best selling cassette single of 2009, 2010, and 2011, selling 24 copies, 13 copies, and 11 copies respectively.
JYV4Q TIL of Samuel L. Gravely Jr. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral.