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TIL clovers used to be part of lawn seed mix and are helpful in many ways to keeping a healthy lawn. About 60-70 years ago they became classified as a weed by savvy marketing teams to sell you products like nitrogen and weed killers, which clovers do naturally by themselves.

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j6pBp TIL that when Dylan Thomas (the Welsh poet) died, his widow had his body shipped from New York to Wales. While they were under way, she discovered a group of sailors unwittingly using the coffin as a card table. She decided not to say anything as she thought her husband would have liked it.
JKw4 TIL dogs have a bacteria on their paws that make them smell like corn chips, which is commonly referred to as “Frito Feet.”
pJZb TIL: Spiders don’t jump using muscles. Instead, they control the blood pressure in their legs like a hydraulic system to propel them upwards.
X0VZ6 TIL Elvis dreamed about building a guest house at Graceland as far back as 1960 but it was never built. The 450 room Guest House at Graceland finally opened in 2016, just steps from Presley's former home. The hotel employs 450 people and is the first in a working middle class Memphis neighborhood
loGNG TIL Blue Whales are the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth, being larger than all dinosaurs, and every single big sea animal from the past