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TIL Poland has a desert

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BrJod TIL Keanu Reeves was a bass player for a band called Dogstar and also opened for Bon Jovi in 1995.
wLaJ TIL A 14-year-old, Tony Hansberry came up with a radically new procedure, which involved sewing up the patients with a vertical endo stitch instead of a horizontal one. doctors were so impressed that they tested it out on their patients. The result: It reduced recovery time, complications and pain.
x5Rk TIL that a certain species of jellyfish has been deemed “immortal” by scientists who have observed its ability to, when in crisis, revert its cells to their earliest form and grow anew.
KyOQ TIL of the Little Dodo bird, a smaller relative of the extinct Dodo, which is still alive today, but once again being pushed to the brink of extinction
xVeeD TIL Belgium has so many political parties, that they faced a problem when 11 parties received a significant amount of votes in 2010. It eventually took 541 days for a majority of parties to agree to work with each other.