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TIL there are species of bamboo that can grow an inch every 40 minutes

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yQ8La TIL a man in Berlin was whipped with a belt in an attack for wearing a Yarmulke (Jewish hat). The man who was whipped wasn't actually Jewish but was trying to convince his Jewish friend he had nothing to worry about wearing a Yarmulke in public.
9YrRm TIL Pope Francis is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
8eXJK TIL that First Lady Edith Wilson was a descendant of Pocahontas
D1GGp TIL that a successful ventroliquist's career ended when he switched from radio to TV as "his lips were frequently seen to move"
KDjE TIL in the late 1940’s, comic books were seen as a direct cause for juvenile crime. Children were forced to burn their comics in school yards and a Senate hearing was held which led to the Comics Code Authority and later the Canadian ban of all comic books