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TIL that the United States is home to about 43% of Golf Courses Worldwide, more than any other nation.

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4kNxa TIL about Areca Nut (Betel Nut) - a widely consumed psychoactive substance in Southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific, with severe health risks affecting millions of people worldwide, and ongoing efforts to combat its addictive properties.
e0BW5 TIL Monk fruit contains compounds that, when extracted, are natural sweeteners 300–400 times the sweetness of cane sugar but with no calories and no effect on blood sugar.
6EMbm TIL that Kostas Sarantidis is a Greek-Vietnamese soldier who fought with the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. He is the only foreign soldier awarded Vietnamese honour "Hero of the People's Armed Forces"
DoGV TIL It is illegal in 17 countries to deny the Holocaust
WkwxY TIL about "Denny," a "hybrid human" girl who was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan. She lived approximately 90,000 years ago, and represents the first time an ancient individual was discovered whose parents belonged to two distinct species of humans.