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TIL that 7,000 years ago a vast lake, known as Lake Mega Chad covered much of the current Sahara desert in north-central Africa. At more than 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles) at its peak, it was larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 3:36 am

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TIL: The sahara desert was full of life several thousand years ago and there’s even ancient rock art in the sahara that shows animals that only live in wetlands. Some historians believe the cultural memory of the green sahara drying up still exists today as the story of the garden of eden.

by whatilearned May 6, 2023, 7:56 pm

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TIL about the Trans-Sahara Seaway and its abundanceof flora and mega-fauna. A huge waterway that crossed the Sahara millions of years ago.

by whatilearned February 12, 2023, 5:55 pm

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TIL The entire Amazon basin is fertilized by diatom shell dust blown over the Atlantic from the Sahara desert

by whatilearned January 27, 2023, 7:47 pm

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The Garamantes: Rome’s neighbours in the Sahara.

by HistoryBuff December 15, 2022, 5:43 pm

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Sahara Desert.

by cringeyjokesman November 16, 2022, 2:40 am

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TIL of the The Ténéré Tree, which was the most isolated tree in the world for 300 years, 250 miles from any other in Niger’s Sahara Desert, until it was knocked over by a truck driver in 1973

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 6:01 am

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TIL that the Sahara Desert ( known for being the world’s hottest desert) used to be a tropical rainforest about 6,000 years ago.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 12:48 am

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TIL the movie Sahara (2005) was plagued with production problems which doubled its budget from $80M to $160M, lawsuits among the crew and being accused of violations of international law. It made $119M but failed to recoup its costs and is listed among the biggest box office failures of all time

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 6:27 pm

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I would drag my nuts clear across the Sahara desert just to have a chance to suck the cock of the last man that fucked this woman

by CopyPastaArchive May 11, 2022, 1:01 pm

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TIL It sometimes snows in the Sahara Desert; even as recently as January 2022

by whatilearned April 13, 2022, 4:36 am

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TIL about Hadara, The Ostrich Boy. He got separated from his parents when he was 2 year-old in the Sahara desert, where he was adopted and raised by Ostriches until he was rescued 10 years later.

by whatilearned March 29, 2022, 7:35 pm

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