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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.

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0d17y TIL that on April 28, 1988, the Boeing 737-297 serving the flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii suffered explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking, but managed to land at Kahului airport on Maui. A stewardess was swept away by the decompression, presumed dead.
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78Z5X TIL the white gooey meat inside the coconut is called the endosperm