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TIL there are companies that make foil kites which can be fitted to cargo ships to significantly reduce fuel consumption by using high altitude winds as an alternate power source.

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DJDD TIL the Flash has moved and ran so fast, that he was capable of outrunning and defeating death itself (the Black Flash) by outracing it to the end of time/space, past entropy, the next Big Bang and into the next Universe.
vP1V7 TIL USS Red Rover (1859) was a 650-ton Confederate States of America steamer that the United States Navy captured. After refitting the vessel, the Union used it as a hospital ship during the American Civil War.
vPR08 TIL, the common first name of Jennier is the Cornish variant of the first name Guinevere which was also the name of King Arthur's wife in the medieval era.
Y7MdW Today I learned that using the word "period" to refer to menstruation is an artifact from the 19th century, when explicitly talking about menstruation was considered taboo, so euphemisms were used instead.
0wlRM TIL that due to the high amounts of selenium in Brazil Nuts, it takes only around 140 nuts to cause death by poisoning.