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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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vj1x TIL there is an ancient old growth forest bordering Poland called Białowieża Forest. It resembles what most of Europe looked like before the 14th century. This story of conservation has been well documented over the last 500 years and is almost as rich as the ecosystem the forest supports.
wek8 TIL McDonalds sausage is 100% chicken.
7rYoM TIL that eclipses are of extreme importance to historians, as they are one of the only ways to precisely date many historical events, thus allowing the timing of events around the eclipse to also be determined.
ADn9o TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible
Oo6n7 TIL that Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering and had a Fulbright scholarship to MIT in 1983. He left MIT when actress Grace Jones, whom he was having a relationship with, convinced him to move to NYC and take up acting.