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TIL you need a license to play golf in Belgium and The Netherlands

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YDjx TIL Microsoft once threatened to sue a high school student named Mike Rowe for creating a website called MikeRoweSoft.com
b9AL7 TIL the rapper M.I.A. was sued by the NFL for $16.6 million for briefly flashing her middle finger during Madonna's 2012 halftime show. The FCC received 222 complaints, including a mother who said her children had to witness the rapper "essentially flipping off America, and flipping off my family."
54nr TIL Rainbows appear as full circles when viewed from the air. They only appear as arches from the the ground because there’s no rain below the viewer.
Y7D0G TIL - The longest word in any language is the chemical name for the protein Titin, also known as connectin, which has 189,819 letters? The word takes over three hours to pronounce in its entirety, and it would take more than 2,000 pages to write it out by hand.
KZm6 TIL that although lead paint was recognized as toxic as early as 1897 and banned by the League of Nations in 1922, the US did not ban lead paint until 1971.