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TIL There is a one-hole “golf course” just meters south of the Korean DMZ which is surrounded on three sides by minefields, and there are reports that at least one shot exploded a land mine.

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awA40 TIL of Ball Lightning, an unexplained phenomena where a luminous ball of what looks like lightning appears at ground level, moving unpredictably and 'bouncing off buildings, people and cars'. Despite many accounts, very little is known about why it occurs.
OBr7 TIL During hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s, many people suffered from “a compulsion to write endless strings of zeros” called Zero Stroke
9p8r TIL A man broke into Buckingham Palace spending half hour eating cheddar cheese and wandering around. He tripped several alarms, but they were faulty. He viewed the royal portraits and rested on the throne for a while. He drank half a bottle of wine before becoming tired and leaving.
aPv0 TIL there was a Spiderman storyline where Mary Jane died of cancer. It turned out Spiderman’s radioactive semen had been poisoning her for years. I’m serious.
M7L18 TIL: The burial sites in Medina and Mecca for the Prophet Muhammad's family members were destroyed to make room for the Hajj pilgrimages.