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TIL: North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea

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woYX7 TIL that Antarctica is the continent that had the largest desert.
7ndM TIL Nicaragua once invaded Costa Rica because of a Google Maps Error
Br4Ld TIL that there are several species of Flies that have the common name 'coffin fly', because they breed in human corpses with such tenacity, they can even continue living within buried coffins.
gM0ay TIL that NASA has four M113 that astronauts learn to drive in case they need to escape from the launchpad. These M113 are also used by the NASA firefighters' squad.
B7eL TIL that approximately 8% of all rams (male sheep) exhibit an exclusive sexual preference for other rams and this preference is linked to a decreased volume of a particular brain region compared to “straight” rams.