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TIL legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it.

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mxp7v TIL Oxana Malaya wad abandoned by her alcoholic parents at age 2, and for the next 5 years lived with a pack of dogs. At 7 years old, she couldn't speak, walked on all fours and behaved like a dog in every way
dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
gA6L TIL there are redwoods that suffer from a type of albinism due to a lack of clorophyll. There are only around 60 of these redwoods in the world and due to their rarity are all kept in top secret locations.
E4od TIL ‘Darling’ means 'favourite minion’.
oBNyW TIL of "Project Prevention", a program which pays drug addicts $300 to sterilize themselves. It was begun by a woman who adopted 8 children from drug-addicted mothers.