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TIL that The Masters golf tournament use to allow prior champions to show up and compete with no other requirements. This was stopped in 2001 when 1957 champion Doug Ford (78), played in his 49th Masters tournament and was asked not to return after scoring a double bogey on the 1st hole.

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Ddgr TIL the worlds largest recorded tsunami occurred in Lituya Bay Alaska in 1958. The wave was 516 metres (1720 feet) in height, and taller than the Empire State Building that stands 443 metres (1454 feet) in height.
RGxl TIL that 7 months after Russia declared war on Germany in 1914, a small band of Georgian warriors from a remote part of Georgia clad in medieval armor rode into the capital of Tiflis and up to the governor’s palace, reporting for military duty, stating: “We hear there’s a war” “Where’s the war”
wvj6 TIL in a 1978 Tennessee state legislature race, one candidate murdered his opponent. Because he was not convicted before the election, his name had to remain on the ballot while his victim’s was removed, leading the murdered candidate’s widow to run a successful write-in campaign.
MenA0 TIL the Appalachian mountains in N America and the mountains of Greenland, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia are all one chain
yVvKw TIL that astronauts have been allowed to vote from space since 1997