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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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lW6A TIL that on July 11th, 2011, Neptune completed its first full orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846
6EMO8 TiL the first time Germany bombed a civilian target during WWII was an accident. The retaliation led to the Blitz, which was actually great for Britain because the RAF air fields had almost been completely put out of action by Luftwaffe action up to that point and Hitler changed targets.
QJAGa TIL that the web security firm Cloudflare generates their encryption codes by taking videos of lava lamps' unpredictable movements and converting the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.
oBKoW TIL that Shirley Henderson, the actress that played Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films, is currently 53 years old and was 37 in Chamber of Secrets
P1JRn TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program in Senegal, before the virus was able to take off. He used media and schools to promote safe-sex messages and required prostitutes to be registered. While AIDS was decimating much of Africa, the infection rate for Senegal stayed below 2 percent