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TIL: Pope Celestine III claimed that air used in windmills belonged to the Church. He only allowed windmills to be built after paying a papal tithe, effectively taxing wind power in 1190

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TIL: Pope Celestine III claimed that air used in windmills belonged to the Church. He only allowed windmills to be built after paying a papal tithe, effectively taxing wind power in 1190

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TIL that when the British evacuated New York in 1783, they nailed the Union Flag to a greased flagpole to stop Americans raising their own. For over a century New Yorkers marked “Evacuation Day” on 25 November by re-enacting the pole-climb, a holiday once bigger than Thanksgiving.

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TIL about Toxic Oil Syndrome in Spain in 1981, which was used to explain a mysterious illness that affected over 20000 people and is believed to have killed over a thousand. Authorities placed the blame on industrial grade rapeseed oil sold as food, but many believe pesticides were to blame.

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TIL that one of North America’s rarest dragonflies, the Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly, has nearly 360° vision, can fly around 40 km/h, and hunts with a success rate close to 95% yet only a few hundred remain because its wetland habitat is disappearing.

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