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TIL: The pacemaker was invented when an engineer accidentally pulled the wrong resistor from a box and realized it could regulate a heart.

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1OMX TIL air conditioning in the United States has a global-warming impact equivalent to every US household driving an extra 10,000 miles per year
rRrRW TIL Japanese Koi are some of the most expensive fish in the world with some of the rarest selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The fish are raised in large groups in the Japanese hills where breeders can have over ten thousand fish from the 120 recognized varieties.
wLNnM TIL: "I Fought the Law" singer/musician Bobby Fuller was found dead in a parked car, outside his LA home. No evidence of foul play or suicide was found. Neither were ruled out. For those who believed it to be murder, suspects cited have ranged from the Mafia and Charles Manson to the local P.D.
NpLP TIL from 1987 to 2008, corporations paid an average of 22.5% in U.S. taxes. Since the recession, this has dropped to 10% – even though their profits have doubled in less than ten years.
8aDXK TIL that your delivery order from DoorDash or Grubhub could come from a “dark kitchen” basically the food you ordered is coming from a big name restaurant under another name. Examples being Pasqually’s Pizza being Chuck E. Cheese and It’s Just Wings being Chili’s.