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TIL that the name “Sahara” is derived from the Arabic word for “desert”. The Sahara desert is the desert desert.

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QJvdM TIL that there's a genus of sea cucumbers called sea pigs that live on the bottom floor of every ocean and extract nutrients from the mud.
v5rr TIL Chef Boyardee of canned Ravioli fame was awarded both the Gold Star order of excellence from the US War Dept. & the Order of Lenin from Russia for supplying rations to allied troops during WWII
4WEo TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.
WbP8 TIL that during the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 per cent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
4Znw TIL The remains of an 18th-century ship were found in 2010 while excavating the Wolrd Trade Center site