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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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7v9x TIL The doctor who performed the “study” purported to show the soul weighs 21 grams removed all data that did not support his hypothesis. In fact, only 1 cadaver supposedly lost weight.
78V6L Today I learned that the internet slang, 'goat' means Greatest of All Time
AwNo TIL a 1994 letter from Johnny Cash to his wife June was voted the greatest love letter of all time. It beat out notes by English Romantic poet John Keats, Winston Churchill, Jimi Hendrix, and the great Hollywood lovers Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.
YpdrB TIL: Brittney Spears has not been in control of her life for many years and only works to enrich her father who acts as her conservator.
WkjyB Till Python hunting is allowed in Florida's Everglades as a measure to control the non-native snake, the Pythons originally pets released by their owners have become an invasive species. The giant snakes have decimated local bird populations and wildlife because it has no know natural predators.