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TIL that the world’s longest golf course is in the scrubland of Australia, it’s 848 miles long and has many unique hazards

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dDaKQ TIL The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups. Its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts.
8paL TIL there are parasite butterflies whose larvae mimic ant larvae so the worker ants will feed them, and mimic queen ants to get extra attention. Researchers once saw larvae attacked by the queen ants, upon which ant workers saved the butterflies and attacked their queens.
aXey TIL that because of a feud on the set of Groundhog day the collaborative filmmaking duo of Bill Murray and Herold Ramis didn’t talk for 21 years. It wasn’t until a week before Ramis’s death that the two made up.
Y7J4G TIL The Sun makes a sound but we can't hear it
aw9X0 TIL during a speech in Poland, President Jimmy Carter’s interpreter told the Polish people he wanted “to grasp at Poland’s private parts” when he meant he was “happy to be in Poland” and that he was “never returning to the United States” when he meant that he’d “just left the United States.”