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TIL pistachio is highly flammable when stored in large quantities and can spontaneous combust

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wLY78 TIL The World Record for the fastest growing plant belongs to a certain species of bamboo. They have been found to grow up to 35 inches per day at a rate of 0.00002 mph. That’s nearly 1.5 inches an hour. You could literally watch bamboo grow before your eyes.
PxgV TIL Tania Head faked being a 9/11 survivor and served as President of the WTC Survivors Network
j6pNn TIL San Francisco’s Alcatraz, the former federal penitentiary was the only prison to offer hot-water showers at the time
6ErP8 TIL Baby bunnies are called kittens, the female rabbit is a doe and the male is a buck
bBMZ TIL that a number far larger than a googol and googolplex exists. Graham’s number is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain a digital representation of the number, assuming one Planck volume per digit.