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TIL giant pandas can survive on bamboo only because of gut bacteria

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m1gMY TIL Rick Rescorla, a Vietnam vet and 9/11 hero, evacuated 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees from the WTC after predicting such an attack years earlier. He saved nearly all of them, then went back to help more and died when the tower collapsed.
Zj7v TIL Wolverines (weighing 9-25kg, and 110cm in length) have been known to attack and kill moose, which are almost 20 times their size. They will also defend their catch from bigger animals including bears and wolves.
e0MZb TIL that in 2002, a researcher found that the average 8-year-old British child could identify 80% of Pokémon, but only 50% of common wildlife species