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TIL that the African Sahara Desert comprises about 8% of the world’s land area, and you could place the entire continental United States within it and have room to spare

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JYWGj TIL we know what Napoleon Bonaparte smelled like. He ordered multiple bottles of cologne monthly and spread it on himself with a brush. The cologne is called 4711 and the same recipe is still used today as when Napoleon used it.
grjO8 TIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgust
LRgr TIL The only person to ever create 3 companies to go public on the New York stock exchange was a trucker who only got into it because his family could not afford to send him to college. He ended up creating the entire shipping container industry, as well as the ships that carry them. Malcom McLean.
d8B5Z TIL about "Operation Condor" a clandestine CIA project destined to orchestrate coups all over LatinAmerica between '68-'89, that contributed to the political instability and developmental delay that we still see today.
GYbQj TIL that there's a company called Eternal reef that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef that memorialize the passing of loved ones by helping to preserve and protect the marine environment.