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On Sunday, snow fell in one of the most unlikely places on Earth. Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, got a couple inches of the white stuff.

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b60x7 TIL: That in preparation for his role in the movie Hunger (2008), Michael Fassbender went on a special diet of less than 900 calories a day for ten weeks. After meeting with a nutritionist, he settled on a diet of berries, nuts, sardines and underwent periodic medical checks.
e0Wl4 TIL about Clay Dyer. A professional bass fisherman that was born without arms or legs, and is almost completely dependent while fishing
Rr18 TiL the Mediterranean filled in just 2 years when the Atlantic breached what we know as the straight of Gibraltar.
OGgjX TIL Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have actually hung a man. Serving as Sheriff of Erie county, he hanged at least two convicted murderers.
1arEW TIL In 1947, Harry Truman became the first President to make an official visit to Mexico City. "I have never had such a welcome in my life," he told the Mexican legislature as hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets to see and cheer an American President for the first time