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TIL that Antartica is the largest desert in the world.

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BgOEW TIL that cats get named “mittens”or “boots” or “socks” so often because of white fur on their paws (hey, they look like mittens, boots, or socks). It was right there in front of me my whole life. It just suddenly entered my brain as I was talking to my daughter about “Mittens” rhymes with kittens…
LkM8m TIL that when Weird Al Yankovic parodied the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Titled "Smells like Nirvana"), frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain considered the parody as a sign that the band had "made it".
BrE1r TIL in Washinton State in 1995 an irate deer hunter shot down a helicopter with an arrow.
N7L6P TIL of the "Southern Strategy", in which GOP politicians like Goldwater and Nixon developed campaign strategies designed to appeal to southern racism, successfully realigning the white & conservative Democratic voters in the South to vote Republican, further pushing the party rightward
epWQb TIL when you sing "Home, home on the range. Where the deer and the antelope play," there are no antelope in the USA.