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TIL that bamboo can be used to make extremely soft yarn for weaving, twice as soft as cotton.

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p86YO TIL Taco Bell restaurants used to have a real bell on the roof.
9wY6M TIL of the 1925 dystopian novel 'Berlin Without Jews'. In the book, a far-right nationalist political party takes power and expels all Jews from Germany, while society at large does nothing to stop them. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the author committed suicide.
D11BP TIL that the charges you are billed for medical procedures have almost no relationship with the negotiated cost that each Insurance company pays.
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