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TIL that cotton reusable bags as well as most other reusable bags create a far greater carbon footprint than plastic bags

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Z81oQ TIL Jack Hinson went on a killing rampage after his sons were decapitated and his farm set ablaze by union soldiers during the civil war, he hunted union officers and sniped around 100 people as revenge
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