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TIL sharks are older than the Rings of Saturn

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xRy0 TIL The Rock used tequila to get his voice ready before singing in Moana
KOL16 TIL In Japan, 40% of golfers have hole-in-one insurance. Celebrations of the feat have become so expensive, millions of golfers pay $65/year for $3500 of coverage to reimburse any costs incurred (champagne, food, tree-planting ceremonies, etc.) while celebrating the "lucky" shot.
OEmX TIL the state name “Idaho” doesn’t mean anything. Some guy just made it up for shits and giggles in the 1860s.
e0Do4 TIL that immediately after Winston Churchill's 'We shall fight them on the beaches' speech during WWII, he told a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!"
yQyoM TIL in 1954 an archaeologist discovered 1,224 intact pieces of wood from 2500BC under the Great Pyramid of Giza. A boat builder then spent 14 years figuring out how they fit together and un-warping them to assemble the "Khufu ship", visible in a museum today.