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TIL More Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined

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e0w5D TIL that bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world and can grow roughly 0.9 meters in a day if presented with the appropriate conditions.
dDO7 TIL Bill Murray’s brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, voice acts Captain K'nuckles from misadventures of Flapjack and The Flying Dutchman from spongebob.
Wk1y8 TIL that when a bee hive becomes too full, bees will form a "Senate" comprised of older, more experienced bees to seek a new location. When a bee finds a good spot, it begins dancing to motion other bees toward it. Then, they vote on it by dancing as a collective until a consensus is reached.
Opm4 TIL that in 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.
jNygn TIL that a 2-Ton Elephant escaped from a farm in New York's Catskills mountains and roamed its forests for 2 weeks in November 1957 before it was peacefully recaptured 7 miles away.