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TIL high-quality bamboo is stronger than steel

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R7aJ7 TIL the European Union paid €360,000 for a report on the effects of piracy, then hid the report, as it suggested that piracy was generally harmless.
6EDmw TIL that typing 40 WPM(words per minute) on a QWERTY keyboard is above average. But you can take it even further by learning steno type. A trained typist reaches 226+ WPM with 360WPM being the record.
PYe4Z A single atom is visible to the naked eye in this stunning photo.
dmkr TIL that whenever Kevin Bacon is at a party he gives the DJ $20 NOT to play ‘Footloose.’ “People expect me to start doing flips like a trained monkey. I try to avoid that.”
8aWxb TIL of Peter Buxtun, an epidemiologist at the Public Health Service who after filing two protests with his superiors was the man who blew the whistle on the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment.t It would become front page news in the New York Times the next day and congressional hearings would be called.