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TIL that bamboo is the fastest growing plant, with certain species growing up to 35 inches per day

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5VZB TIL that Thomas Edison said he would give Nikola Tesla 50,000 dollars if he could redesign Edison’s inefficient motors. Tesla did this, but Edison told him it was a joke afterwards, crushing Tesla.
VB5pk TIL Tasmanian Devil's give birth to between 30 and 40 offsprings but the mother only has four teats. The first four to attach to teats survive, the others perish.
nV1P TIL that the Yankee Doodle lyrics “Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” refer not to the pasta, but to Macaroni fashion, a British type of pompous over-dressing.
JYkp4 TIL that Eunice Hunton Carter, a black female assistant district attorney, built the investigative case resulting in the 1936 conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano. She was the first African American woman both to graduate from Fordham Law School, and then to serve as ADA in New York.
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