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TIL: Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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mReo TIL that the custom of the ace being over the king and queen originated after the French Revolution, to symbolize the lower classes overthrowing the nobility.
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wL91P TIL that the ceremonial handguns carried by Sentinel NCOs at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are highly unique and customized SIG SAUER M17s of which 4 exist. Made with nods to history such as grips made from wood off the USS Olympia, the ship that transported the original Unknown back in 1921.
4k6jw TIL that in 1952, in order to see who would win the main role in a film called “Viva Zapata!”, actors Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn held a “pissing contest” in which the person who’d piss the furthest over the Rio Grande in Mexico would win the role. Marlon Brando was the champion.
ADjw4 TIL of Kinscem, a Hungarian Thoroughbred mare, who won all of her 54 races in the late 1800s. She remains the winningest Thoroughbred racehorse of all time.