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TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.

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kmZ4 TIL that black swans are an actual type of swan, not just a rare color variant
QJRmM TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954
e6xJ TIL the original doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts had a handle
gvZ8 TIL Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
Aml7 TIL that on an Auschwitz concentration camp wall, a Jewish prisoner carved, “If there is a god, He will have to beg for my forgiveness.”