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

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K5b4 TIL that Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani fell in love with a French dancer so hard, he sold everything he owned and bestowed her with thousands of roses. His romantic gesture inspired the popular Russian song A Million Scarlet Roses (1984).
bn60 TIL that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service now recognise League of Legends pro-players as professional athletes and the visa application process is now simplified for them.
evLJ TIL that fetuses of the giant panda have been grown in the womb of a cat by inserting both panda and cat embryos into the cat womb. The panda embryos were crafted by inserting nuclei from panda cells into rabbit egg cells. The cat mother died of pneumonia before completed term.
awjAo TIL that birds are, taxonomically speaking, the last extant dinosaurs and, as such, are technically a type of fish.
RmbQ TIL up to 1 in 5 adults with Down’s Syndrome work paid jobs in America, as compared to only 1 in 100 in Europe.