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TIL that Michael Phelps holds the world record for the longest televised golf putt.

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kjwg TIL that Iran is the only country in the world that allows citizens to trade kidneys for money via a regulated marketplace. There is no waiting list for transplant patients. Citizens are even exempted from military service if they donate as the gvt. contends they have already served their country.
GADj TIL There are more black men in the collective prison system than were enslaved in 1850.
abdA TIL mucus in the nose serves to dissolve odor molecules so that they can activate different receptors, and also to protect from toxic odorants
wo886 TIL that 7,000 years ago a vast lake, known as Lake Mega Chad covered much of the current Sahara desert in north-central Africa. At more than 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles) at its peak, it was larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today.
x68Zg TIL that the letter “E” was used for grading up until the 1930s because US schools feared students would misinterpret “E” for meaning excellent.