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TIL that you can contract Leprosy from armadillos
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TIL there is a concept for so called Solar Updraft Towers that are generating electricity from low temperature solar heat without solar panlels
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TIL that in 1950's and 60's the Canadian government, military and the RCMP used a device called "the fruit machine" to attempt to identify homosexual men in the public service. Subjects were made to view pornography while measurements were taken of pupil diameter, perspiration and pulse.
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TIL that Ben & Jerry’s sends all of their ice cream waste to local farmers to be used as pig feed. The pigs love the ice cream, but they refuse to eat one flavor. Mint Oreo.
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TIL painting one blade of a wind turbine black could cut bird strikes by up to 70%.
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TIL: Phoenix streets reach 160°F during the summer, which can cause thermal burns