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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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J1YJ8 TIL that the late third president of the Republic of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, once held a press conference to proclaim that he only had one wife, Lucy Kibaki after rumors that a prominent businesswoman, Mary Wambui, was his second one.
7r1Ep TIL there is a timezone running at UTC+08:45 that is observed by just 200 people in the south of Australia
awaNo TIL when JFK was only 3 years old, his father Joseph Kennedy narrowly escaped the infamous 1920 Wall Street bombing planned by a group of anarchists who used a wagon full of lead weights as a bomb. The explosion killed 38 bystanders, however, Kennedy was thrown unharmed to the ground.
Gp8G TIL that there are thousands of Palestinians serving in the Israeli Armed Forces
BAab TIL that Australian aborigines have stories that tell of events from the last glacial maximum (21,000 years ago) when Australia and Indonesia were connected by a vast land bridge. These stories are some of the oldest extant repositories of human knowledge.