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TIL Due to ice cover, Antarctica has the highest average surface elevation of all the continents at around 2000m above sea level (for comparison, the highest peak in the British Isles, Ben Nevis in Scotland, is 1343m)

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JYXw4 TIL fire will burn in a spherical shape In microgravity environments, like space, because without gravity oxygen diffuses with random oxygen molecules drifting into the fire. Absent the upward flow of hot air, fires in microgravity will stay spherical and small
4XlyJ TIL that black essayist James Baldwin had an 1,884-page FBI file, one of the longest in Bureau history. Truman Capote, one of the most-suspected writers of the era, only had a 110-page file
woLjY TIL of the Hubble-Barn unit of volume, arrived at by multiplying the size of an atomic nucleus by the length of the observable universe, equal to 13.1L.
QeN6 TIL that computer algorithms can correctly spot a fake review on TripAdvisor 90% of the time, while humans are no better than chance
NXMdN TIL about the graniteville train crash. In 2005 two Norfolk trains collided and released enormous amounts of toxic chlorine gas. 10 people were killed and over 250 had to be treated for chlorine gas exposure