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- The first pickup-head for Alexander Graham Bell's record player was in bamboo
- The incandescent filament of the first electric bulb created by Edison was in bamboo
- 80% of the cellulose produced in India for the fabrication of paper comes from bamboo
- Bamboo reduced in pieces is used as animal and fish-breeding food
- In China, some suspension bridges in bamboo have a free span of 40 meters
- There are decorated bowls in bamboo more than 1,500 years old
- The mechanical resistance of bamboo is for some respects higher than that of steel
- Some bamboos of the South of France can reach in 2 months a height of 24 meters and a diameter of 60 cm
- Some bamboo species grow 1 meter in 24 hours
- Bamboo is the only plant that survived in the epicentre of the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima
- Bamboo is the base of a lot of food products
- Bamboo is used as medication against circulation troubles, asthma, kidney affections and gastritis
- Wine, beer and brandy are produced from bamboo
- Bamboo is used for the manufacturing of desalination filters and poison for arrow tips
- The bamboo canes are used as scaffolding for buildings
- The bamboo roots can extend up to 200 km per hectare
- 5.2 million of pairs of chopsticks in bamboo are used every day
- The destruction of the tropical forest has nothing to do with bamboo
- Bamboo replaces reinforced concrete in some cement constructions
- In Vietnam, bamboo is used for fabricating toothpaste
- There is a book making an inventory of more than 5,000 uses for bamboo
- Bamboo is the raw material of numerous musical instruments in Asia
- Bamboo could be processed into diesel fuel
- It is known that bamboos fight unequalled against ground erosion
- In Australia, some surfboards are made of bamboo coated with an epoxy layer.
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