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TIL Cotton bags must be reused thousands of times before they meet the environmental performance of plastic bags

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78oyL TIL that in 2009, hundreds of brightly-colored bird specimens were stolen from the Natural History Museum London. It was later found that a student had sold them online to be used for fly-fishing lures.
WJlN TIL that 40 people die each year from shark attacks. 2500 die each year from using products intended for right-handed people despite being lefties.
kODBB TIL: for April fools Day 1957 the BBC programme panorama made a hoax video exploring the bountiful 'Spaghetti Harvest' that year
6Eb0Y TIL that in 2015, Martin Scorsese directed a 16-minute short film called “The Audition” that served as an advertisement for a Chinese casino. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, with a cameo appearance from Brad Pitt. The budget was $70 million.
6Eeb8 TIL The makers of Monty Python and the Holy Grail were struggling to raise the 2 million pounds needed, and had just about given up, when George Harrison offered to finance it. The reason he gave was that he wanted to see the movie.