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TIL: Dandelions are called "pissenlit" in French, which means "piss the bed" because the tea made from their roots is a powerful diuretic

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991D TIL: Red pandas are not related to giant pandas, they are in their own family with no living relatives.
ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
EXVx TIL There is a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia; you can go and leave there personal objects left by former lovers, accompanied by brief descriptions.
wLpPP TIL Ribs, music recordings on X-rays, to smuggle and distribute prohibited music in the USSR. The films were bought or taken from the trash, cut into 7-inch discs, and the center hole was burned via a cigarette. The quality was awful, the price was low, and could really only be played 5 to 10 times.
0WPA TIL Chipotle Mexican Grill will never play Radiohead songs in their restaurants, claiming that the band’s “texture of sound” doesn’t fit the interior design of their restaurants.