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TIL that instead of using pesticides, the Mexican state of Coloma releases billions of sterile fruit flies who then outcompete the fertile ones for mates.
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TIL about the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), the most environmentally friendly form of pest control. Disease carrying insects, including mosquitoes and tsetse flies, are sterilized with radiation and released to mate with wild females, rendering their eggs useless.
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TIL: Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit at the present-day location of the Oklo mine in Gabon, west Africa, had just the right environmental characteristics to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. With ground water acting as a moderator, it operated like a natural version of a nuclear reactor.