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TIL Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, prime minister of Iceland, is the country’s first female prime minister and was the world’s first openly gay head of government

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0drw5 TIL that Europeans used to rent pineapples to display as status symbols
74ZL TIL a 195 million year old dinosaur bone was found with soft tissue still preserved in it
VMKAB TIL of Kris Boesen, a young man who is the first fully quadriplegic person to regain use of his arms after an experimental stem cell injection surgery; he was paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash, and then had surgery which injected 10 million AST-OPC1 cells.
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