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TIL there are portions of the oceans that are essentially deserts if you only look at the amount of rainfall they receive.

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XZpQ TIL of the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, aka “The Gates of Hell”, a place so inhospitable that when the MV Dunedin went aground in 1942, passengers were only rescued after another ship ran aground, a big aircraft was damaged on landing, was repaired and crashed again, and several army trucks were lost.
dDAQ TIL there is a mountain in Canada called “Unnecessary Mountain”.
e0YZL TIL the Parental Advisory label was created in part because a mom caught her 11 year old daughter singing the sexually explicit lyrics to “Darling Nikki" by Prince. The Recording Industry Association of America responded by introducing a content warning label.
YpLJv TIL An IKEA in The Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because of the traffic jams of customers it caused.
EgAX TIL Jackie Kennedy undertook a historical renovation of the White House that sought to replace the cheap furniture bought by the Trumans with pieces of WH historical furniture. She famously asked the Eisenhowers to give back the Washington era China they had taken home after leaving office.