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TIL that the world's longest golf course is 1365km long. Nullarbor Links is an18-hole par 72 golf course with one hole in each participating town or roadhouse along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South Australia.

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ZXBa TIL the Russian ice hockey team died in a plane crash in 1950 and Stalin’s son, fearing his father’s reaction, created a new team and hid the news from him, and Stalin never knew the difference
QNPlE TIL that in 1983, a diving chamber containing four men was accidentally depressurized. This caused the blood of three divers inside to boil instantly, while the fourth diver was forced through a 60 cm (24 in) opening, causing his body to fragment and all of his internal organs to be expelled.
VBn8k TIL Paignton Zoo stopped feeding bananas to their monkeys because it was unhealthy, like "giving them cake and chocolate".
pjRN TIL the bite in Apples logo was originally meant to hold the letter “a” in Apples old logo
wK0J TIL that in 2002, Dave Grohl became the first person to hold the number one spot on the modern rock charts as a member of three different groups