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DQAjj TIL: Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
AD7Vg TIL that during WWII, the British launched nearly 100,000 weather balloons trailing long metal wires toward occupied Europe, causing power outages when they shorted out power lines and causing at least one German power station to burn down.
gMLvD TIL There is now technology built into some guns in America that allow a gun’s owner to control the safety-catch using their smartphone or tablet.
xVQY1 TIL that an infant king in 16th century Hungary was kept alive by being placed inside recently slain animal corpses, a primitive form of incubator.
5XKD TIL in 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India