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TIL Death Valley's premier town, Furnace Creek, is home to a par 70 golf course that sits 214 feet below sea level.

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b9j4j TIL President Warren G. Harding once gambled away the entire White House china set in a card game
Z1a TIL that John Smith, before Jamestown, was a trader, pirate, slave, mercenary, knight and had won three duels. He had been to (at least) modern day Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Spain, North Africa, England and the Americas all by the age of 27.
MemAV TIL Hilda Woodward was one of the oldest female artists to feature in a song that became a Number One single in the United Kingdom. Woodward, who played piano for the band "Lieutenant Pigeon" alongside son and frontman Rob, was 58 when "Mouldy Old Dough" reached Number One. She died aged 85 in 1999.
RlE8 TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters or 1.54 miles away by British CoH Craig Harrison. The bullet took over 6 seconds to reach its target and fell about 400 feet.
nWogr TIL In 2021, a US drone strike mistakenly targeted a man delivering water for a California-based nonprofit