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TIL that plant bio-electricity can be harvested and transformed into ambient music with devices which measure slight electrical variations in a plant and translate them into musical notes.

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EgxwW TIL the editors of prominent science journal Nature originally rejected the first research paper demonstrating MRI because the pictures were too fuzzy.
PY88L TIL deer can be very destructive to your garden and because they hate the smell of human hair, you can use it as a deterrent (deerterrent).
WkGd TIL that because of noise ordinance laws in Europe, club owners have created “ silent discos ” where club goers listen to music through headphones.
e0bl6 TIL the Microsoft Flight Simulator series predates Microsoft Windows by 3 years, making it one of the longest running PC games series of all time.
1067 TIL when nothing newsworthy would happen in the 1930’s, the BBC would simply announce “There is no news” and play piano music instead.