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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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X0rWX TIL The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant monk seal species; the other is the Mediterranean monk seal. A third species, the Caribbean monk seal, is extinct.
OAkY TIL Diesel engines produce very little carbon monoxide and will not kill a person trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
yZ6e TIL in 1976, then 16-year-old “Weird” Al Yankovic started his career by handing a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in his bedroom into a “cheesy little tape recorder” to Dr Demento, a radio DJ who was speaking at his school.
dvDE TIL the 1992 video for Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” was ultimately successful in finding 26 out of the 36 missing children featured in the US, UK, and Australia, and not all of those stories had happy endings.
N7B41 TIL that there is evidence to suggest meditation plays a protective role against the natural reduction in grey matter volume associated with aging.