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TIL Poachers have resorted to poisoning elephant water holes with cyanide to increase their efficiency. One poacher, Tony Maphosa, killed more than 100 elephants this way before being caught, after four years on the run

by whatilearned January 16, 2023, 7:15 am

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There are terms like “German efficiency”, “British humor”, or “Canadian politeness”. What is your country associated with?

by QuestionGuy January 11, 2023, 5:50 pm

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TIL Some genes that protected against bubonic plague in the 1300s are now associated with autoimmune diseases. The increased efficiency of presenting plague antigens to T cells also increases the risk of self proteins being presented as dangerous resulting in immune activation against self tissues.

by whatilearned October 20, 2022, 11:40 am

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An efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of caution….

by cringeyjokesman October 6, 2022, 9:45 pm

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TIL of Jevons Paradox, by English economist William Stanley Jevons in 1865. The Paradox states that as technology or policy improves the efficiency of a resource, the relative decrease in cost of the resource results in greater use of the resource, negating the efficiency improvement.

by whatilearned October 3, 2022, 2:33 pm

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Why can’t you improve the efficiency of wind farms by playing country music around them?

by cringeyjokesman May 20, 2022, 2:23 pm

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A man said ‘efficiency’

by cringeyjokesman May 20, 2022, 11:52 am

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TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!

by whatilearned April 10, 2022, 1:36 am

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TIL Keeping cats on ships has been a long held seafaring tradition due to their efficiency as a form of pest control and the supposed luck they brought to vessels. It is thought that cats were spread around the world by groups such as the Ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Age of Discovery explorers.

by whatilearned April 8, 2022, 5:58 pm

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ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACROSS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

by ProgrammerDude November 20, 2021, 8:26 am

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Summarized relative table of the energy efficiency in programming languages

by ProgrammerDude November 19, 2021, 12:08 pm

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The effectiveness and the efficiency of online degree courses in Cyber Security are in high demand. They are also advantageous in various other ways. Read the complete blog to find the contrasting features of traditional colleges vs online colleges.

by ProgrammerDude November 9, 2021, 12:27 pm

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