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TIL The Gobi Desert is expanding through desertification, most rapidly on the southern edge into China, which is seeing 3,600 km² (1,390 mi²) of grassland overtaken every year.

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rbLw TIL that in 1948, a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving cyanide to every bank employee as a “dysentery inoculation.”
Wrw8 TIL of Dickey Chapelle, The first female reporter and correspondent killed in action. Dickey was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa during ww2 and covered the Hungarian revolution of 1956; She traveled with the troops and learned to jump with paratroopers. She was killed during the Vietnam war.
7dL7 TIL that in 2009, a 17-year old runaway girl was admitted to a hospital and found to have rabies antibodies in her blood. After two weeks she was discharged and disappeared entirely. She is the first person ever known to have survived rabies with no intensive care.
KOw16 TIL that Tupac's godmother, Assata Shakur, was a Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, revolutionary and bank robber. She was convicted for the murder of a police officer, escaped prison, found asylum in Cuba, and is still alive with a 2 million dollar American bounty on her head.
aw4MJ TIL "No Woman, No Cry" was written by Jamaican songwriter Vincent Ford who meant the chorus to mean "No, woman, nuh (=don't) cry" but used the english creole language Jamaican Patois. He was running a soup kitchen and was a friend of Bob Marley, whose royalties kept his soup kitchen running.