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TIL Antarctica is officially considered a desert, thus making it the largest desert in the world.

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LQmbP TIL North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un lived in Switzerland from 1992 until 2000, where he attended a private school, and was described as "well-integrated".
Awkd TIL prior to becoming an actor, Paul Rudd was a DJ at Bar Mitzvahs
O0rX TIL In the early 1960s, the US military dispersed 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit around the Earth, in a failed attempt at creating an artificial ionosphere to improve radio communication. Many of the needles are still up there today.
ANMw4 TIL about Arctic Hysteria (also known as Piblokto), a culture-bound syndrome that mostly affects the female Inuit population. Symptoms include tearing off clothes, running naked through the snow, screaming, throwing things, and performing other wild behaviors.
4k87b TIL that, besides sickle cells, there are nine other types of Pokilocytes or misshapen red blood cells. These include: spherocytes (round), elliptocytes (oval) and dacrocytes (tear-drop). The causes and effects are as varied as the shapes.