Today is, "Inventor's Day." Here's one inventor's story...
When Bill Black, an Austin-area barber, noticed how hair clippings, which fell onto plants near his barber chair, seemingly improved their growth, he did a little research. He learned that hair contained 18 % nitrogen. Further research, on the part of Black, uncovered that plant fertilizers are nitrogen based. Eureka! Those hair clippings he had been throwing into the trash now became the foundation for FertHairLizer -a plant fertilizer product that still being sold today.
(Texas Trivia - Weird,Wacky, and Wild by Prosapio & Wojna)
What's lying on your floor?
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That last question is scary. Do not ask me those kind of questions.
And now when I cut Ian's hair, I'll be giving the clippings to our plants. Cool.
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