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TIL a desert in South America went 500 years without recorded rainfall.

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RDOa TIL that after the first iPhone was unveiled in 2007, Google engineers were forced to start all over on a secret smartphone they had spent two years working on.
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6EA78 TIL of George Spencer Millet, who died running away from 6 girls who were trying to kiss him on his birthday. He tripped and fell and a pen in his pocket stabbed his heart.
8agoP TIL Australia had a white people only policy until the 1970s