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TIL storing potatoes with an apple keeps them from sprouting

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7rydx TIL about men's sheds. Rather than working alone in the garden shed, these are specific places where men (and also women) can go and work on general craft projects like woodwork, electronics, etc in a social setting.
ADRwg TIL: Very few frog species actually make the familiar 'ribbit ribbit' sound made famous by the Baja California Chorus Frog which is native to Hollywood and Southern California
vPZV8 TIL In the past, Chinese orphanages were full of healthy girls due to the strict one-child policy and the common preference for boys. Now, Chinese authorities estimate that 98 percent of abandoned children have disabilities, both mild to severe
7r00r TIL Midway Atoll is actually part of an underwater mountain range that stretches from Hawaii to Meiji Seamount, an underwater mountain near the coast of Russia.
Z1a TIL that John Smith, before Jamestown, was a trader, pirate, slave, mercenary, knight and had won three duels. He had been to (at least) modern day Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Spain, North Africa, England and the Americas all by the age of 27.