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TIL that Antarctica is a desert

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KbPw TIL the ellipsis (three dots…) is it’s own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing.
b640Z TIL Pipe organs, such as those commonly found in churches, predate Christianity itself, having been invented circa 200 BC. They were also frequently played in ancient Greek/Roman sporting events, much like in stadiums today
ymJv TIL 19 Ph.D’s were given an incorrect formula for determining the volume of a sphere and asked to verify it by filling the sphere with water and measuring the volume of the water, all but one clung to the incorrect formula despite empirical observations.
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