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TIL: Canada has a desert - Columbia Plateau

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kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
QOA6 TIL in 1846 during the Mexican-american war, a group formed called “St. Patrick’s Battalion” that consisted of Irish Catholics. They faced discrimination in the US, so they switched to fight for Mexico.
R5W5j TIL that in the '60s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation from the US for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by Allied bombing during WW2
49ga TIL The first color broadcast was in 1958 when a TV presenter pushed a button to change black and white into color for President Eisenhower’s speech
b9mw7 TIL that in 2012, Taliban spokesman Yousef Ahmadi accidentally used 'CC' instead of 'BCC' when sending a press release, thereby exposing the names and emails of more than 400 Taliban press contacts.