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TIL: Plants can get viruses which are primarily spread by insects

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94EQ TIL that Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana produces compressed natural gas from its cows’ waste and uses it to fuel their fleet of delivery trucks and farm equipment. This practice saves 1.5 million gallons of diesel and reduced CO2 emissions by 1.4 million metric tons.
4Jg5 TIL the ZIKA virus was discovered in the Zika forest of Uganda in 1947 but only became a world health concern in 2007
neeWY TIL The first song featured on the very first Kidz Bop album was All Star by Smashmouth
ZnpQ TIL Finland has been pioneering a form of deciding upon public policy where people actually think through the problems at issue, ponder on them, consider solutions, test a few of them, and then implement the best.
N0K8 TIL that the full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once a day and once a night for a period of only three weeks once a year, resulting in a continues, 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.