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

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8a988 TIL that Kyoto was actually at the top of the list of targets for the atomic bomb, not Nagasaki nor Hiroshima. Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered for the ancient city with its thousands of palaces, temples, and shrines to be removed from the list, but the military kept on putting it back.
0wdjM TIL the ampersand (&) is actually “and per se and”, and the character itself originated from the latin word et (and) turned into a single figure
eWE5 TIL In 1967 Sweden switched from left-hand driving to right-hand driving. All vehicles had to come to a complete stop at 04:50, then carefully change to the right-hand side of the road and stop again before being allowed to proceed at 05:00
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.
epgXJ TIL that in the 18th century a ship named HMS Invincible was defeated by a sandbar