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TIL the largest sand dune in North America is in….Idaho.

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QJmba TIL that Killing Hope, the book about the history of US backed coups around the world, is publicly available on CIA.gov
dDMLE TIL 'Pebble" refers to any rock with a size between 4mm to 64mm, or 0.16" to 2.52"
xV6K0 NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units from English to metric.
GYayE TIL that in 564 BC during the ancient Greek Olympics, a man won in the Pankration (a mixture of boxing and wrestling) despite being dead.