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TIL that Kenya introduced the strictest ban on plastic bags in the world.

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VaGk TIL: Robin Williams took a huge pay cut to voice the Genie in Aladdin, if certain conditions were adhered to. Disney reneged on the promise and later apologised to him with the gift of a Picasso painting.
epg65 TIL in March 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown shipped himself to freedom in a 3-foot by 2-foot crate from his master’s home in Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, earning himself the nickname “Box”
yRyM TIL Sunburn is not caused by your skin cells being damaged by the Sun and dying. Rather it’s their DNA being damaged and the cells then killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer
X0DE6 TIL Kane Hodder appeared in character as Jason Voorhees on the Arsenio Hall show in 1989 to promote "Jason Takes Manhattan", being interviewed as if Jason was a real killer. He remained silent throughout the interview.
P1awn TIL that certain types of cheeses are made using tiny arachnids called "cheese mites" which ingest the unfinished dairy product and excrete the material that completes the cheese.