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TIL of Panyee FC, a club in Southern Thailand that plays on a floating pitch.

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8XP TIL that over a period of 200 years, 3 ships perished at the same location of the coast of Wales, on the same day (December 5th) and all 3 had only one survivor. The 3 survivors all had the same name: Hugh Williams
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Kr7w TIL - When introducing Golf to India, the British were angered by monkeys running onto the course & playing with their balls. When all attempts to stop the monkeys failed, they decided the game needed to adapt. To do so they introduced a new rule: “Play the ball where the monkey drops it.”
QNbne TIL that the first recorded use of "OMG" was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill from Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher - decades before texting existed.
9Rd6 TIL that Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent van Gogh, provided unfailing financial and emotional support to his brother and was instrumental in popularizing works by Monet and Degas.