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TIL Using programming to model entire wind farms and account for the wake of individual turbines increases energy production over all.

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kOgOm TIL of Otto Skorenzy, the 6' 4" 250lb German solider listed by MI5 as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. Part of the Nazi Werewolf operations and responsible for a raid on a mountaintop castle, he allegedly went on to work for Mossad.
vYE7 TIL a Parisian apartment that was undisturbed for 70 years was opened, revealing priceless art and furniture.
NXYo8 TIL in 1953 US and Britain instigated a coup d'état in Iran which began a period of dissolution for Iranian democracy and society. This eventually led to the Iranian revolution and the creation of an Islamic Republic.
4koNa TIL The United States spent $20.2 billion a YEAR on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
PYpYJ TIL About Lise Meitner, a woman who described a groundbreaking phenomenon called nuclear fission in a letter to Nature Editor, she was ignored because she was Jewish and five years later Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize for the same discovery.