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TIL reusable grocery bags need to be used over 100 times before they are better for the environment.

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r1ry TIL that during most military funerals, a fake bugle with an embedded speaker is used to play “Taps”
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4k8Na Today I learned about Sensory Specific-Satiety - a mental phenomenon that refers to the declining satisfaction generated by the continuous consumption of a certain type of sensory stimulation, i.e food, and the consequent renewal in appetite resulting from the exposure to a new flavor or stimulus.
bNvj TIL Warren Buffet said, “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”
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