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TIL that Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome, Says Science

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grmd7 TIL the Skeleton Coast in Namibia is the world’s largest ship cemetery
0daLp TIL that there’s a medical phenomenon called "stone baby" (lithopedion) where a fetus can calcify inside the mother and remain there undetected for decades.
l7QQB TIL. The world's largest desert by area is Antarctica
8a7Ra TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
KYGEB TIL about Dan Rather, a journalist, saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in 1961. He created the first radar weather report, which helped initiate the evacuation of 350,000 people.