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TIL The creator/father of frisbee golf was cremated after death and made into a frisbee in 2002

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4XaxJ TIL there is a seemingly endless list of nicknames of poker hands. For example, a pair of nines is called a pair of Wayne Gretzkys.
4kbro TIL Alexander the Great’s troops marched an estimated 22,000 miles (35,000 km) while conquering from Greece to Egypt to India. That’s almost the circumference of Earth (24,000 miles).
8axwG TIL when Amelia Earhart was proposed by her boyfriend George Putnam, she suggested a one-year temporary marriage to test its feasibility . She also said, "On our life together I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly."
8oML TIL pencils are painted yellow because in the 1890s, China had the best graphite in the world, and China associates the color yellow with royalty and respect.
epdYL TIL there’s a foundation that takes unwanted and lost diaries.