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TIL antarctica is actually a Desert
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TIL President Ulysses S. Grant's wife had control of four slaves during the American Civil War given by her father. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, she chose to free them even though the proclamation did not apply to her state of Missouri.
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TIL that over 600 fighter pilots of the Swedish Air Force were killed in training exercises during the duration of the Cold War. Eventually in the 1960's flight safety became a concern because aircraft became more expensive.
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TIL Arabs enslaved at least twice as many Africans than what the trans-Atlantic slave trade produced
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TIL about Stephenson 2-18, which is a red supergiant (RSG) star that has a volume around 10 billion times bigger than the Sun and If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would engulf the entire orbit of Saturn.
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TIL During the war with Pakistan in 1971, the Indian Air Force was commanded by a Muslim; the Army Commander was a Parsi (Zoroastrian), the General Officer of the Army in Bangladesh was a Sikh, and the General flown in to negotiate the surrender of the Pakistani forces in East Bengal was Jewish.