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TIL the Mu Us desert in China was completely wiped out by reforestation efforts

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Wk6DB TIL Mark Zuckerberg was sued by 3 reporters from the Crimson, after Zuckerberg hacked into their email accounts to monitor the investigation against him. He used their invalid logins on facebook.com, to zero in on their email passwords.
Qo19 TIL: Gandalf’s sword Glamdring is in Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne.
N7BRb TIL in 2013 a piece of landing gear from one of the 9/11 flights was found wedged between two buildings in NYC.
BrpQe TIL that Queen Victoria was addicted to cocaine infused chewing gum. She was even believed to have shared some with a young Winston Churchill.
mxGoR TIL of the "Hedonic Treadmill" - the tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative life events