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TIL storing potatoes with an apple keeps them from sprouting

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R548j TIL of the antimony pill, aka the everlasting pill, used in the 18th and early 19th century for stomach relief. It was reusable after pooping it out, making it very cost effective. Entire families used the same pill, which some times went through multiple generations
b9w47 TIL the “Great Depression” did not originally refer to 1929, but instead to an earlier depression in 1873, later renamed the “Long Depression”
WDOL TIL Keanu Reeves was to play the role of Spike Spiegel in a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie. Initial plans were made in 2008-2009 and the director Watanabe stated in 2014 that the movie had faced a lot of “Hollywood problems”
a8po9 TIL of the Cheung Chau Bun Scrambling Competition, a spring event held in Hong Kong where participants climb a tower made of steamed buns. The climber who collects the most buns wins
LQPp TIL the World’s Greatest Living Explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, was thrown out of the SAS for blowing upa movie set, climbed Everest to get rid of his vertigo, did 7 marathons in 7 days a few months after heart bypass surgery, amputated his own fingers and was considered for the role of James Bond.