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TIL the average American golf course consumes around 312,000 gallons of water per day.

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WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
6ENkm TIL Irish monks invented spacing between written words.
D1xgJ TIL that the videogame publisher Bethesda offered the makers of Fallout New Vegas a 1 Million dollar bonus if the game scored a review of 85 or higher on Metacritic- the game released and got an 84, and no bonus was given.
x6Vok TIL In June 2019, the 350 residents of Sommaroy—which translates into “Summer Island”—signed a petition to make their home that sits west of Tormso north of the atlantic circle, the world's first time-free zone during the midnight sun period, from May 18 to July
b8XZ TIL of Adolf Tolkachev, the Soviet engineer and CIA Asset who singlehandedly provided enough information to compromise the MiG-29 and MiG-31, among other advanced avionics before being betrayed by EL Howard and executed by the KGB in 1985.