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TIL Supermarket Apples can be a year old (and its okay)

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0wE11 TIL Perry Farrell, frontman for Jane's Addiction, is the only person who has performed at all twelve Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals to date, having appeared under five different names.
d8YPj TIL about the "Theremin", a musical instrument that you play without physically touching it. By moving your hands closer or away from two metal antennas, you alter the theremin's surrounding electromagnetic fields and the interference causes an audible sound.
DQ1Zg TIL the US AirForce almost lost several nuclear bombs near a village in Spain in 1966.
KOnJ9 TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow marketed jade eggs for women to insert into their vaginas, and got sued for false claims and misleading information
d8nXd TIL about Impatiens glandulifera or Himalayan Balsam. We have a plant that is very common near us and grows very quickly throughout our local area along rivers. I assumed it was Japanese Knotweed, however on closer investigation it is not, but is still an invasive species brought to the UK in 1839.