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TIL that Bamboo is a Grass, not a Tree

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Dpe TIL Human Hair has about the same tensile strength as steel of the same width
GAwD5 TIL of Colin Fleming Brien, a WWII POW of the Japanese who survived his beheading, was buried alive, and dug his way out to make his way to a Japanese hospital where he recovered
1a46d TIL that Didcot, Oxfordshire is the most normal town in England.
6E7W TIL: Irena Sendler, a woman who saved 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust was beat out for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for Al Gore and global warming.