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TIL that the world's largest desert is not the Sahara, but Antarctica. While the Sahara is the largest hot desert, Antarctica is the largest cold desert, spanning over 14 million square kilometers.

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nddW TIL there was an engine used in certain tanks and airplanes that was started using a shotgun shell.
woEME TIL there is a garbage patch in the Atlantic ocean that is three times the size of France.
wJV6 TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
7bLM TIL that Donkey Kong was so named because his creator believed ‘donkey’ meant 'stupid’ in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape”
9YdXr TIL of Syndrome K: a fake disease that Italian doctors made up to save Jews who had fled to their hospital seeking protection from the Nazis. Syndrome K "patients" were quarantined and the Nazis were told that it was a deadly, disfiguring, and highly contagious illness. They saved at least 20 lives.