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TIL that cotton shopping bags need to be used 7100 to 20,000 times for their environmental impact to be the same as a plastic bag

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yQOBM TIL Yuri Gegarin, the first man in space, began life in a mud hut
QM19 TIL that beluga whales that suffer the loss of a child will sometimes “adopt” inanimate objects such as plants, rocks, and, in one case, a caribou carcass.
wLd8 TIL that when Joe Frazier was a boy, other kids would give him food or money to walk with him at school to avoid being bullied.
OKDY TIL one of the three people who died in the crash of Asiana Flight 214 was actually killed when they were run over by a responding fire truck
4X9E6 TIL that Rolling Stone Magazine published a 6-page article of future stand-up comic Bert Kreischer while he was attending Florida State University. The article, naming him the top partyer at the nation’s number one party school, became the inspiration for National Lampoon’s Van Wilder.