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TIL a team of thieves stole $18,000 worth of tracking devices from a warehouse. They were apprehended within hours

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Wk79o 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.
K4a6 TIL: Dogs Can Smell Parts Per Trillion. A Human Equivalent Would Be Perfect Vision Up To THREE THOUSAND Miles Away.
VMaLD TIL about Adolph Metzger, a bugler who used his instrument as a weapon until it was battered shapeless in the Fetterman Fight. Metzger was the only soldier whose dead body was not mutilated. Instead the Indians covered him with a buffalo hide. His dented bugle is now displayed in a Wyoming museum.
nWZoB TIL that in the 18th and 19th centuries, the fear of being buried alive led to "safety coffins" with bells and breathing tubes. This was fueled by cases of "cadavers" waking up on the dissection table in medical schools just as the first incision was being made.
69b17 TIL using special aquariums, a team of researchers proved that some flowers that grow in the ocean are pollinated by plankton and invertebrates just like flowers on land. Inside each flower is a nutritious substance filled with pollen that sticks to the animals when they move from flower to flower