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TIL White-tailed Eagles kept flying into moving turbine blades at the Smøla wind farm in Norway. An experiment of painting a single blade black on each of two turbines compared to two unpainted turbines found that the bird deaths declined by 70%.

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MWem TIL that during the Great Depression women made clothes out of flour sacks and when manufacturers learned of this they started using patterned fabrics and designed the label to wash out.
wLwRY TIL that the Cassowary’s reputation for disemboweling or killing a humans is the result of local folklore. There is only one recorded case of a fatal attack from 89 years ago.
WkWBd TIL that a giant tortoise species was believed to be extinct for 113 years, only for it to be discovered again in Galápagos, 2019.
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