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TIL Putting pepper on your lawns will keep dogs away

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16J1D TIL that in 1968 Bob Beamon broke the world record for the long jump by nearly 2 feet. His jump exceeded the limits of the measuring equipment that had been installed and his jump had to be measured manually.
X0DRP TIL because of his painkiller addiction, Matthew Perry doesn't remember seasons three to six of 'Friends'
Wk0bo TIL Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, was buried in a cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. He is the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured this way.
G5n4 TIL: The Speaker of the House during Watergate could have stalled the VP confirmation and impeached Nixon which would have made himself POTUS, but he concluded that, as a Democrat, he had no right to a Presidency that the American people had entrusted by election to a Republican.
9Yprr TIL President Nixon interfered with Vietnamese peace talks in order to get elected.