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Most deserts aren't covered in sand

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Despite Hollywood portraying barren wastelands as endless oceans of pristine rolling sand dunes, the reality is overwhelmingly mundane. Most arid regions are basically just gigantic, incredibly boring expanses of hard-packed dirt and annoying pebbles stretching endlessly to the horizon.

Most deserts aren't covered in sand
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