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TIL that for the first-time ever, total off-course golf participation (27.9 million) surpassed on-course participation (25.6 million) in the US in 2022. Off-course participation includes: standalone driving ranges, golf entertainment sites (Topgolf etc) & businesses w/ simulators or screen set-ups.

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ZJrv TIL Sigourney Weaver made the no-look over the shoulder basketball shot in one take from Alien: Resurrection
lD71 TIL a man got to push the detonator on the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge demolition because he won a contest for having the shittiest commuter experience with the bridge.
N4AE TIL that although Neutrogena has a Norwegian flag on it’s moisturizer, it’s an American company and has nothing to do with Norway.
ADgXn TIL the first area-accurate world map was created in 1999 when Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented the Authagraph Projection, which divides a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transfers them to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolds into a rectangle.
dygZ TIL in 1918, after a white man was killed by a black man, a white mob went on a week-long riot and killed at least 13 people, including an African-American woman. She was burned alive, and her unborn baby was cut from her stomach and crushed because she spoke out against her husband’s murder.