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TIL that if you make a hole in one with a Titleist ball you can fill out a form online and Titleist will send you a wooden plaque as a reward for the hole in one.

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b94X7 TIL that a racing horse in the late 1700s named Potoooooooo got his name after the owner instructed the stable boy to write the horses name (Potato) on a feed bin. The stable boy misspelled the name as "Potoooooooo" (Pot plus 8 Os) and the owner loved it so much that he kept the name.
nYWP TIL a man’s AI watched and recreated blade runner. The recreation was taken down. Essentially: Warner DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
xVnoB TIL that this month, this year is the 2500tg anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae, when King Leonidas famously led his 300 Spartans against the Persian King Xerxes’ forces of around 300,000
p8jEZ TIL Teddy Roosevelt nearly died on several occasions while exploring the previously uncharted River of Doubt. After surviving a close call with a coral snake and an emergency surgery on his leg, he became delirious with a fever and repeatedly demanded to be left alone to die in the jungle.
l7MrA TIL the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened in 1919. Two British aviators, J. Alcock and A. Brown, flew from Canada to Ireland, completing the trip in just under sixteen hours. On the way, they lost radio contact and heating, and flew through fog and snow, freezing in the open plane.