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From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with biofueled planes? Algae is a tricky creature that presents a lot of challenges and misconceptions. Here’s why it’s difficult to harness—and why it could big a big payoff.

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m184R TIL Some lizards do push-ups as a part of their mating rituals (notably the western fence lizard), because of this the Mexican Spanish word for lizard, Lagartijas, also means push-ups.
b9eBj TIL of the Wake Island Rail, a little-known casualty of WW2; it went extinct when Japanese soldiers were stranded on the island by a US blockade. With no fear of predators, a combo of overhunting by the starving Japanese & the bombing of the island by the US wiped out the entire species in 1 year
X0pyk TIL That Spanish noble women used to eat clay pots, the habit caused a paler complexion (due to anemia), which was considered attractive, It also served as contraceptive (Since the negative health effects caused a delay in menstrual cycles). Eating the clay pots caused death in some cases.
a8nlL TIL that during "the Emergency", a political crisis in India which saw civil liberties being curtailed, the newspaper Indian Express protested against ongoing press censorship by publishing a fully blank front page editorial.