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TIL. The world's largest desert by area is Antarctica

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WkoGB TIL Nurse Sandra Clarke was making her rounds when a frail patient made a simple request, "will you stay with me." When she returned from her rounds she discovered he died. Sandra became the founder of "No One Dies Alone," a volunteer program that provides dying patients someone to be with them.
l7XZG TIL James Hepburn was the third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He fled to Denmark to escape arrest, but he was imprisoned in Malmo castle. Years after his death, it was found the sea air preserved his body, and his corpse put on display in a museum.
N7ZG6 TIL about Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour that has been going on continuously for the last 31 years, and throughout the 90's and 00's played roughly 100 dates a year - on April 19th 2018 he played his 3000th show.
RVR6 TIL When Issac Hayes terminated his contract with South Park claiming the show was intolerant, after the Scientology episode, creator Matt Stone stated “He never had a problem when we offended other religions till it was his own.”
yjXp TIL Pangaea was not the first “Super Continent”. Evidence suggests at least 2 Super continents existed before it, possibly more.