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TIL a round of golf was not set at 18 holes arbitrarily, but because there are 18 shots in the everyday whiskey bottle. One shot per hole.

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OoGQL In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic explorer and volcanologist Stephanie Grocke explains what might be driving Santiaguito’s almost hourly eruptions.
69Rb7 TIL a Dutch court ordered a 41-year-old man, who judges said had fathered between 550-600 children, to stop donating sperm. The court considered it “sufficiently plausible” that the children has or could have negative psychosocial consequences including problems around identity & fears of incest.
k6wB TIL a Japanese politician claims he’s Jesus and urges opponents to commit suicide by hara-kiri before he casts them into hell
4ka5R TIL There's a supercar vending machine in Singapore that dispenses Ferraris and Lamborghinis
4eNN Louis Louis Réard a.k.a the inventor of the modern bikini declared that it wasn’t a real bikini unless it could be “pulled through a wedding ring” and after its modern debut was banned in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Australia, and declared a sin by the Vatican.