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Random fact: the mall of America is not equipped with central heat. It's main source of heating is kenetic energy created by all the people in the mall.
 
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Random fact: the mall of America is not equipped with central heat. It's main source of heating is kenetic energy created by all the people in the mall.
Other sources of heat are solar through over 8 acres of skylights. There is also heat generated by lighting, miscellaneous store fixtures, restaurant cooking and space heaters at the various entrances.
 
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Other sources of heat are solar through over a linear mile of skylights. There is also heat generated by lighting, miscellaneous store fixtures, restaurant cooking and space heaters at the various entrances.
And I think I read somewhere that they ran into heating concerns after switching to LED lighting. Basically the new lights didn't give off nearly as much heat, so the building-heating assumptions were no longer valid.
 

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I always wondered why so many farmers in my hometown area had guinea fowl roaming around on their farms:

"There are many reasons people raise guinea fowl. The birds sound an alarm whenever anything unusual occurs on the farm. While some people find this noise to be a nuisance, others find it to be an effective tool for protecting the farm and make guinea fowl the farmyard “watchdogs.” The loud noise of the guineas has also been shown to discourage rodents from invading the area.

Keeping guinea fowl is also an effective means of pest control. Flocks of guineas kill and eat mice and small rats. In addition, guinea fowl can be used to control insects. Wild guineas eat mainly insects, and domestic guineas can consume large amounts of insects without affecting garden vegetables or flowers. Guineas have been used to control wood ticks and insects such as grasshoppers, flies, and crickets. Guineas can reduce keepers’ risk of Lyme disease by consuming deer ticks, which carry the disease. Guinea fowl also eat slugs, and flocks have been known to attack snakes.

Guinea fowl can also be raised for meat and egg production. The meat of young guineas is tender and tastes like that of wild game. The meat is lean and rich in essential amino acids. Guinea eggs can be eaten just like chicken eggs (and should be collected daily if not used for hatching purposes). During the laying season, it is common for a guinea hen—an adult female at least one-year-old—to produce an egg a day."

https://poultry.extension.org/artic...s also,affecting garden vegetables or flowers.
 

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The Oxford Electric Bell has been ringing almost continuously off of the charge of twin dry pile batteries. It was assembled some time before 1840 and was put on display soon after. The batteries have never had any external charge added to them in over 180 years of continuous service.
Shocking!
 
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Lake of the Woods has a shoreline of 25,000 miles but if you count the shoreline of their many islands it is 65,000 miles of shoreline. That's more than Lake Superior! There are 14,522 islands in Lake of the Woods
 

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Lake of the Woods has a shoreline of 25,000 miles but if you count the shoreline of their many islands it is 65,000 miles of shoreline. That's more than Lake Superior! There are 14,522 islands in Lake of the Woods
There is an unnamed island on an unnamed lake ultimately on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada that is an island on an island on an island.
 

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A blue whale is so big that if you laid one out on a basketball court they would have to postpone the game.
 
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