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TIL the longest hole-in-one in PGA Tour history came in 2001, when Andrew Magee made a 332-yard ace at TPC Scottsdale. It remains the only par-4 ace ever recorded on Tour. The ball actually bounced off another player’s putter on the green before dropping in the cup.

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VBmYD TIL dolphins get drugged when chewing pufferfish
ADEEB TIL that one of the 2 co-owners/founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.
ddNj TIL of Henry Moseley, who rearranged the Periodic Table based on atomic mass and died aged only 27 in WW1. Isaac Asimov said of his death, ‘in view of what he might still have accomplished … his death might well have been the most costly single death of the War to mankind generally’.
oBP4E TIL that in the 9th century Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life created a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. Ironically, short of a path to immortality, they had discovered gunpowder.
VMPk0 TIL that airport runways at higher elevations need to be longer because the thin air at high elevations results in less lift on the aircraft