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TIL that removal of invasive vegetation helps reduce the amount of ticks in an area.

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GAXLE TIL that in the early 1960s, Texas AM radio station KXOL in Fort Worth had among its staff future comedian George Carlin, future CBS reporter Bob Schieffer, and future Price is Right announcer Rod Roddy.
781Wr TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
woJr7 TIL Japanese artist Hitomi Terasawa drew the inner workings of the Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994
l7nJ5 TIL That in 1856, the revolutionary French magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin was sent on a mission by Napoleon III to pacify the tribes of French Algeria by showing them that 'French Magic' was stronger than that of their local religious leaders
oBJ9E TIL The term "Conspiracy Theory" was created by the CIA to stop people from questioning the Kennedy Assassination