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TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.

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9YjxD TIL that on 19 January 2021, it snowed in the Sahara Desert; this is the fourth time this has happened in the last 50 years (1979, 2016 and 2018)
9YBO7 TIL there's a country named CHAD, in Central Africa. What a flex.
G96N TIL in 1941, movie starlet Hedy Lamarr invented and patented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication. This is the basis of WiFi, CDMA, Bluetooth and other modern communication technologies.
5YMkn TIL about Thalassocnus: A majestic sea sloth that probably walked on the sea floor.
grwy7 TIL In the 1920s, architect Robert Hugman envisioned San Antonio would have tour boats like the gondolas of Venice with Spanish design and a shopping district called Romula. After construction began in 1939, the River Walk only became commercially successful in 1970