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

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j6KoQ TIL that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster.
8eYQb TIL that during their campaigns leading up to the 1964 United States presidential election, supporters of Barry Goldwater and Lyndon B. Johnson separately created sodas for each candidate. Goldwater’s was called “Gold Water” and Johnson’s was called “Johnson Juice”.
0Qnj TIL: Today I learned about ghost flowers, a flowering plant with no chlorophyll.
606W TIL that in the 1960s Chrysler developed a car powered by a gas turbine engine. It could rev to 44,500 rpm, sounded like a vacuum cleaner and could run on diesel, petrol, kerosine, jet fuel and as the President of Mexico proved, tequila.
QkWa [TIL] falling in love costs you two friends according to Oxford study