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TIL that the Sahara is roughly the same size as China or the USA

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7nPM TIL The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in bore the number plate 11 11 18. This assassination directly lead to the start of the First World War - which ended on 11/11/18.
0aYp TIL a man took several hours on live TV in India to kill another man using his magical powers. After failing, he said the god he worships is protecting him at that very moment. The man then replied saying he is an atheist.
rN9Re TIL that sticking out one’s tongue is a sign of respect or agreement and was often used as a greeting in traditional Tibetan culture. Apparently, a cruel ninth-century Tibetan king had a black tongue, so people stick out their tongues to show that they are not like him (and aren’t his reincarnation)
QDW9 TIL Donald Trump tried to stop the building of an offshore wind-farm in Scotland because it would “ruin the view” of his golf course.
XymR TIL that in 1982 a scientist discovered an ‘impossible’ structure of matter and was universally mocked by the scientific community. In 2011, Dr. Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.