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TIL Alice Cooper has credited golf with playing a major role in helping him overcome his alcohol addiction. He has even gone so far as to say that when he took up golf, it was a case of replacing one addiction with another. He now plays six rounds a week with a 2 handicap.

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Z8wM4 TIL about the Falkland Islands. These islands were covered by landmines in 1982 when Argentina invaded because they wanted to control them. Because of this certain areas of the islands became untouched leading to the penguin population to thrive because they aren't heavy enough to set the mines off.
VMYA4 TIL that due to the limited number of different names on Norfolk Island, the island’s telephone directory lists people with common names by their nickname. There are entries for Cane Toad, Lettuce Leaf, Goof, Diddles, Rubber Duck, Carrots and Tarzan.
gEo8 TIL Elon Musk doesn’t patent any of SpaceX’s technology because their only competition is China, and China ignores patent’s.
MeDl7 TIL A boy whose whole body looked like an open wound because of a genetic condition which led his skin to be paperthin, had a skin sample taken, its DNA repaired, & the modified skin cells grown to make skin grafts totalling 0.85 sq m. He now leads a normal life.
ADd9a TIL that irukandji jellyfish are both the smallest and one of the most venomous jellyfish in the world. There stings are so severe they can cause fatal brain hemorrhages and have been described as "100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula's".