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TIL storing potatoes with an apple keeps them from sprouting

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NaEb TIL A North Carolina town banned the use of solar panels because they thought it would “suck up all the energy from the sun”.
mxPgR TIL that Wilson Greatbatch invented the implantable pacemaker – but he didn’t mean to. He was attempting to build a device that recorded heart rhythms, but after he misassembled the contraption, he noticed that it was giving off a heartbeat-like pulse. The pacemaker went on to save millions of lives
Wk5xB TIL Chuck Berry wrote 'Johnny B. Goode' as an autobiographical song about a poor boy who masters the guitar and becomes famous. Berry grew up on Goode Ave. in St. Louis.
5MJQ TIL greeting cards that play music contain mercury, making them unsafe to discard in the normal trash.
epRAL TIL that Sharks are older than Trees - Sharks have been around for at least 400 million years and have survived all five global mass extinctions. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest sharks evolved around 450 million years ago. By comparison, trees appeared just 360 million years ago.