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TIL so-called one-time-use plastic grocery bags are increasingly being made of food starches from production waste, and they biodegrade. Article is from 2021 and does not address new advances.

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eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
X0w8k TIL the iconic six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, "The Microsoft Sound" was created on a Mac. The creator, Brian Eno, admitted "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."
pK1e TIL - Probes and other spacecraft have a one in a billion chance of hitting something in the asteroid belt due to the low density of it.
e0NAn TIL Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
8eAdP TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.