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TIL Cyanide comes from bamboo
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TIL Naked mole rats are NOT blind, are NOT moles or rats or totally hairless, and can move their incisors separately or together like chopsticks. Oh, and they're resistant to cancer.
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TIL that the high speed rail in Indonesia is branded as Whoosh, which is short for Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Hebat, lit. 'Timesaving, Optimal Operation, Outstanding System'
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TIL of the Bat' d'Af', French military units composed of heavily-tattooed criminals and problematic soldiers. Members called the units "the Hell" due to harsh discipine and living conditions. Despite this, they served with distinction in France's colonial wars, Crimea, and WW1.
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TIL that Christopher Walken was one of the last people to ever see Natalie Wood alive and hired a lawyer when the case surrounding her death was re-opened in 2011. Upon re-opening the case, as well as an additional subsequent re-opening of it in 2012, the police stated Walken was not a suspect.
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TIL - Liberty Island and The Statue of Liberty are New York City owned, but physically reside entirely within New Jersey