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TIL: Plastic bags were created to be reusable to reduce waste and save the planet, saving trees from being chopped down for paper bags

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d8Avr TIL Lemony Snicket named the Baudelaire Children after Charles Baudelaire, a French poet that said, "Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art"
E1NkX TIL Handel composed Messiah in an interlude, somewhere between three and four weeks in August and September 1741. "He would literally write from morning to night". Mozart confessed himself to be humble in the face of Handel's genius
wvgo TIL The university of WV has had pod cars on a track that transport people around their campus for decades
YpmWA TIL the painting "The Scream" was painted with a red sky accurately depicting the Norwegian sky at the time caused by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.
dwd7 TIL that the Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with wing patterns that mimic two flies eating bird shit. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the deception.