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TIL A guy quit his job and practiced golf for 6,000 hours to put the theory of "intensive practice" to the test and become a pro golfer

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4MeX TIL that despite Olive Garden’s advertising that it has a cooking institute in Tuscany, there is no institute. Olive Garden does send a number of employees to Tuscany each year, but they spend only a few hours at a local restaurant in its off-season.
6EJjX TIL a medical theory which holds that the human appendix serves as a storehouse for good bacteria, and helps to "reboot" the human digestive system after a chronic or short term diarrheal sickness
KOJga TIL that the George Barris did not make the first official Batmobile. This customized 1956 Oldsmobile 88 was built 3 years prior to the TV show.
W7VO9 TIL that The aardwolf, a member of the hyena family, feeds mainly on termites and has teeth adapted for eating them, which are not capable of chewing meat.
lonW1 TIL in 1976, a mule named Lord Fauntleroy beat 200 horses in the 3,500-mile Great American Horse Race. Along the way, Norton, the mule’s rider, would often stop to help other riders, beat everyone by 10 hours, and retired with the $25,000 prize while calling himself the “Great American Horseman.”