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TIL: Cotton grocery bags would need to be used 7,100 times to match the environmental impact of a plastic bag that is used only once

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dvOQ TIL Twenty year old Ben Franklin devised a list of virtues to help him live a better life, a list which he followed until he died at age 84. They include: “Imitate Jesus and Socrates” and “avoid trifling conversation”
a8BWM TIL that "Billing" (billing and cooing) refers to courting birds touching their bills together or holding each others bills to strengthen bonds.
4knJb TIL about the 25th Dynasty of Egypt aka Black Pharaohs, a line of Pharaohs who originated from the Kingdom of Kush (present day Sudan and southern Egypt). They reigned over Egypt for nearly a century and restored traditional Egyptian values, culture, art, and architecture (including pyramids).
e0PQ4 TIL For years after movie The Taking Of Pelham 123 was released in 1974, New York City Transit Authority would not schedule any train to leave Pelham Bay Park station at 1:23. To this day subway dispatchers have avoided scheduling a Pelham train at 1:23 p.m. or a.m.
vPdOj TIL that during the 1980s, anti-nuclear groups mapped the locations of ICBM silos in South Dakota. This was not a security risk because the Soviets already knew the sites of all the missiles.