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TIL a cotton shopping bag must be used at least 131 times to have less impact on the environment than single-use bags.

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e0gAL TIL Humans evolved to have white skin only 8000 years ago. Our species has been around for about 300,000 years.
1ZPV TIL Johnny Weissmuller, famous for his role as Tarzan, was playing golf in Cuba during the Revolution when he was surrounded by a group of rebels. He immediately gave his trademark Tarzan yell. The soldiers recognized it and were so delighted to meet… Tarzan that they escorted him to a safe area.
996m TIL diamond really has no value. De Beers created an ad that convinced generations of young men and women that diamonds are valuable and synonymous with love
yWyJ TIL Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, during his trial when accused of murdering three and a half million people, replied, “No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation.”
Km1w TIL that American Space Shuttle Astronaut John Grunsfeld, while in orbit, called in to NPR’s Car Talk posing as a stumped caller.