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TIL Classical music is effective at dispersing loitering teens from retail and transportation hubs

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5VrRp TIL that perhaps counterintuitively, defibrillators do not shock the heart to get it to beat normally- the shock actually stops the heart from beating altogether. This allows the natural automatic pacemaker of the heart to operate again and restore the heart's rhythm back to normal.
4kRDJ TIL employees at the General Motor’s Fremont Assembly plant were considered excessively unruly in the 1980s and often left empty glass bottles inside the doors of unfinished cars to annoy the future owners
QJerL TIL the most landed on property in Monopoly is Illinois Ave. A hotel on Illinois Ave is second in value only to a hotel on Boardwalk.
9YPrp TIL that natural history museums use teams of beetles to clean the flesh off specimens.
oRA8A TIL that in 2017, a 6-year-old nearly died from tetanus. The cost of his care was almost $1 million.