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TIL bamboo doesn't only grow in China. It can be found in South Africa, Chile, the United States, and Russia.

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7rwJx TIL Animals are increasingly shifting from day to night to avoid people. Even activities like hiking and camping can scare animals, causing them to become more active at night.
6LX8 TIL material from pig intestines prompts the human body to replace damaged tissues with little or no scarring, recreating the healing efficiency of young children.
d0xK TIL Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop, making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death
awmg9 TIL of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, who was fishing off the coast of a remote Icelandic island inhabited by puffins when his ship capsized. He survived by swimming six hours in freezing water and walking several miles over volcanic rock. An average person survives in those conditions for about 75 minutes.
Br8PW TIL only 3 people have technically died in space. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 crew was killed at an altitude of 104 miles when the cabin depressurized. The re-entry seemed to go off without a hitch. But recovery crews quickly discovered the crew inside dead, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.