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TIL that in December 2017, Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport became the first airport in Wyoming to use a renewable energy power source for part of its electrical demand

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b9Yyp TIL Alan Conway was a scam artist who successfully impersonated Stanley Kubrick in the early 1990s. Rather than being annoyed, Kubrick was instead fascinated by the scam. Years later, Kubrick's personal assistant tracked down Conway and made a film based on his exploits.
Brd5k TIL that the biblical books of Psalms and Proverbs are likely to be copied from an older Egyptian text called "Instruction of Amenemope"
6EJOw TIL many people in ancient Europe believed in the existence of vegetable lambs that grew as plants in Asia and had blood and flesh like an animal. The legend comes from the cotton plant, which was unknown in Europe
yVBRl TIL the use of blinding laser weapons was outlawed under the 1995 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons and prohibited the use of “laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision.”
KOAyG TIL about Emperor Pedro II of Brazil who was an avid supporter of science education and a respected intellectual in his own right. Charles Darwin himself said that “The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific man is bound to show him the utmost respect.”