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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 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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TIL When Eric Prydz presented his song ‘Call On Me’ to Steve Winwood (the song heavily features a Winwood sample), he was so impressed he re-recorded the vocals for Prydz. Eric would later go 20 years refusing to play the song live citing a desire to distance himself from its commercial legacy

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TIL that a plasma center in Haiti called Hemo Caribbean was responsible for amplifying the early HIV outbreak and its becoming into a global pandemic by its unsterile conditions. Hemo Caribbean at its peak exported 1,600 gallons of plasma to the United States monthly, mostly to hemophiliacs.

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