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TIL Irish golfer Adam Rolston set up a 2,000 km golf hole across Mongolia. The hole was par 14,000 and took 80 days to finish. He finished the game 6,000 strokes over par.

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5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
yVVRa TIL that there is strong evidence the US sent residents back to the bikini atol post testing of nuclear weapons as it "affords the opportunity for a most valuable ecological radiation study on human beings ..." the relocation resulted in many premature deaths and disabilities in newborns.
ZpDgQ TIL a Chinese company marketed a bottle-shaped vibrating device for women that claimed if you sucked on it for 10 minutes, it would help form a v-shaped chin on the head of the user. V lined features are considered attractive in Asian countries.
GAKm5 TIL: Japanese nobles, particularly children of the Imperial Family still receive their education at Gakushūin. It was founded in 1847 and meant to educate children of noble birth with limited spots to the public from preschool to university. Many current politicians and generals come from there.
Oo7Ma TIL that the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the “chemist’s war of Prohibition” remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history.