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TIL there's an 18-hole golf course INSIDE the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Jakarta. It was used for Indonesia Open

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W79g9 TIL Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell) dated his three female co-stars: Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, and Elizabeth Berkley while filming the show. Not even Zack pulled that off.
Bg1Ny TIL on the Yap Islands, locals use a giant carved stone as currency and it never exchanges hands, someone will own it in name and use the idea of ownership as a payment method.
R59E8 TIL During the Napoleonic Wars French cavalry developed a technique called Sabrage, which is opening a champagne bottle with a saber. The wielder slides the saber along the body seam of the bottle to the lip to break the top of the neck away.
Oa47 TIL slaves in America in 1850 cost the equivalent of ~$40,000. The going rate today is $90.
PDan TIL that in 2015 Boeing patented a plasma force field