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TIL Bamboo is the world’s fastest-growing plant. Certain bamboo species can grow 91 centimeters (about 35 inches) in a single day.

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JYVrV TIL that many US military officials, even war hawks such as Douglas MacArthur and several fleet admirals, opposed the usage of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and cruel. Curtis LeMay even went as far as to say "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."