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TIL antarctica is actually a Desert

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4kEP5 TIL that 60 percent of people who attempted suicide are vitamin D deficient
PYZGG TIL that the Huanghuagang Martyr Memorial in China has a replica of the US Statute of Liberty on top. It replaced a previous Statue of Liberty that held a rifle, symbolizing Mao's quote that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
0d0eN TIL that even though the Vatican says a bishop or archbishop should be referred to as "His/Your Excellency", the Canadian government does not recognize it, and instead refers to bishops by their title only
xgnk TIL that in “Titanic” Jack Dawson claims to have gone ice fishing in Wissota Lake which is a man-made lake and wasn’t formed until 5 years after the Titanic sunk
VMWgm TIL of Betteridge's law of headlines - "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".