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

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