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TIL Throughout Australia, there are approximately 400 courses that have greens comprised of oiled sand or some other similar material, usually due to the prohibitive cost of maintaining grass greens by small clubs in rural areas.

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OGGxg TIL that in 2015 Yamaha music and bike designers swapped roles for a promo.
X078P TIL: The "Leatherman" was a person dressed in a leather suit who would repeat a 365 mile route for over 30 years. He would stop at towns for supplies and lived in various "Leatherman caves". When archeologists dug up his grave in 2011, they found no remains, only coffin nails.
e0rn4 TIL, Disney's the Parent Trap was an adaptation of a German novel that had been adapted three times, in three different countries before Disney got the rights to it
AN76n TIL Abraham Lincoln was the tallest US President at 6'4, while James Madison was the shortest at 5'4.
R7Wpj TIL the pronunciation of "-ing" as "-in" ( e.g. "she was cleanin' ") is actually the original pronunciation, with the "ing" pronunciation having caught on later perhaps under influence of the spelling. The "in" pronunciation survives today in colloquial speech