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TIL the environmental cost of a reusable canvas bag is equivalent to 400 plastic bags. Unless you reuse it at least 400 times, you’d be better off sticking with plastic.

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PP8n TIL some birds fly from Alaska to Northern mexico without sleeping when migrating. And the military is studying them to make sleepless soldiers.
o8NA TIL of the “American Hippo Bill,” a 1910 plan to introduce hippos to the bayous of Louisiana in order to control populations of water hyacinth (an invasive plant species) and provide a source of meat. The bill fell just short of being passed.
d8AxZ TIL A guy quit his job and practiced golf for 6,000 hours to put the theory of "intensive practice" to the test and become a pro golfer
J47V TIL that Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.
oYxE TIL a Chinese doctor spent 6 years illegally building a mountainous stone penthouse on top of a residential urban tower, “complete with boulders, trees, gardens, pools and ponds.”