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TIL as part of their wider enviromental policy, Rwanda has banned plastic bags since 2008. By 2019, all consumer single use plastics were banned in the country and airport securiy will confiscate any plastic bags carried by visitors

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0wYkA TIL Nicosia, Cyprus is the only capital city in the world divided between two separate countries. Furthermore, both countries claim it as their capital making it also the only city in the world that is the capital for more than one nation.
b9M1E TIL Tongan custom dictates that one should not imitate the actions of persons one is honoring, so at Elisabeth II's coronation; the Queen of Tonga rode her carriage in the pouring rain refusing to pull the hood up as Elisabeth did.
EkV0 TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”
pYP0Q Today I learned that one of the reasons why Walt Disney decided to build Disney World in the eastern US is because only 5% of Disneyland's visitors came from east of the Mississippi River.
AXW4 TIL that the copyright extension on Mickey Mouse will expire in 2023 and he will then be in the public domain, unless another copyright extension is passed