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QN9xE TIL In Albertville, French Alps, cheese generates electricity. Using whey from beaufort cheese production, a plant produces biogas, powering a turbine that generates 2.8 million kilowatt-hours per year, enough for 1,500 people.
LxBp TIL that by 2012 the players of World of Warcraft had collectively spent about 6 million years worth of time playing the game, about as much time as humanity has spent evolving as a species
vNaL TIL there is an enzyme that makes a reaction that normally takes 78 million years occur in 18 milliseconds. 10^17 times faster.
ANmn7 TIL about Gene Moe, An Alaskan Hunter that in 1999 Killed a 750LB Kodiak bear with a pocket knife when he was 69 years old
Y9bZ TIL underwater Octopus Wrestling was a popular sport in the 1960s with the annual World Championships held in Puget Sound, Washington. The event was televised and attracted 5000 spectators. The caught octopuses (which can grow up to 90 pounds) were either eaten, donated, or released back to the wild