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TIL there is a one hole golf course in the Korean DMZ that is surrounded on 3 sides by minefields.

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Z8yPY TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
R5we4 TIL about thanatologists, people who study death, dying, loss, and grief from multiple perspectives (medical, physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, and more).
m1WVE TIL that the name ‘Peacock’ refers only to the male bird of the species ‘Peafowl’. ‘Peahen’ refers to the female bird of that species
b6Bra TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military.
agjJ TIL the small diamond pattern etched into flashlights, tool handles, barbells, etc. is called “knurling”