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What’s an actual environmental importance that mosquitoes have aside from drinking our bloods and spreading disease?

by QuestionGuy August 23, 2022, 10:11 am

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TIL in June 2021, Boryana Straubel, wife of Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel, was struck and killed while riding a bicycle on a highway shoulder in Nevada. She managed a family foundation that focused on environmental sustainability. The driver of the car that hit her was unlicensed.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 3:55 am

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TIL that there is a random runway in the middle of the Everglades that is only used for training. It was originally intended to be the first runway of a new airport for Miami, intended to be the largest airport in the world, but the project was canceled due to environmental concerns.

by whatilearned July 11, 2022, 3:11 pm

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TIL that the maximum safe environmental temperature for a healthy young adult doing daily activities is 88 F (31 C) at 100% humidity or 100 F (38 C) at 60 percent humidity.

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 8:48 pm

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TIL about CityTree, a moss covered wall that is capable of binding environmental toxins while producing oxygen at the same time. It has the same purifying effect as 250 trees.

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 3:16 pm

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TIL, The poingnant “Web of Life” Speech supposedly delivered (or written) by Chief Seattle in 1855, was actually an invention of screen writer Ted Perry for the 1972 environmental film *Home*

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 2:17 pm

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TIL those with a genetic predisposition to paranoid schizophrenia can have symptoms of the disease induced through social and environmental stress

by whatilearned May 6, 2022, 4:21 pm

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TIL Global shark populations were wiped out by up to 90 per cent around 19 million years ago, even though there were no signs of sudden climatic or environmental changes

by whatilearned April 23, 2022, 2:04 pm

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TIL: Female binturong are one of the few mammals with the ability to delay implantation after mating. It is called embryonic diapause and means that she can control the timing of her pregnancy to take place when environmental conditions are favourable. Binturong have a litter of 3-6 young.

by whatilearned April 10, 2022, 5:43 pm

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Does the term “climate change” need to be rebranded? Has it been tuned out by the public. What would be a better alternative? In a survey I did in a subreddit, “Environmental Collapse” was the most popular choice? Do you agree? Or, do you have a better alternative?

by QuestionGuy April 2, 2022, 11:02 pm

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TIL that the Captain Planet Foundation charity still exists and focuses on helping food insecure families and providing gardening essentials to schools as well as environmental issues

by whatilearned March 18, 2022, 1:39 pm

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TIL that “The Harrisburg Freeway”, a proposed highway extension in Houston in the 1970s, was cancelled due to the destruction of historic urban neighborhoods and environmental concerns.

by whatilearned March 1, 2022, 12:06 am

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