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

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Y71Y7 TIL that voice actress Dionne Quan, noted for roles like Trixie Tang in Fairly OddParents, is legally blind and has all of her scripts written in braille.
wLJRE TIL the Psychedelic Frogfish, first scientifically described in 2009, has a number of colorful, kaleidoscopic stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern. The fish lives among the similar-appearing coral rubble around Ambon Island, Indonesia where it can hide by crawling into narrow crevices.
ek65 TIL that during the 1979 Grand Mosque Seizure of Mecca by Islamic Insurgent, a french special commando briefly converted to Islam in order to respect the rules forbidding non-muslims to enter the “holy city” and then intervene.
86VV TIL A 13-year-old girl dove through the window of a moving car and fought the passenger and driver so she can get her stolen cell phone back.
ng8o TIL There are over 2100 languages spoken natively in Africa making it the most linguistically diverse continent in the world