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TIL Putting pepper on your lawns will keep dogs away
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TIL the Dandelion is edible, contains more beta-carotene than a Carrot, and exists in the U.S. only because European settlers introduced it as a salad green.
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TIL showers in Alcatraz had only one heat setting which was moderately hot so that the inmates couldn’t acclimate to the surrounding waters.
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TIL: Fukushima Ind. hat a shortlived mascot named "Fukuppy", a portmanteau of Fukushima and Happy
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TIL that during the silent film era in Japan, narrators called "benshi" would provide introductions, dialogue, and live commentary in theaters while the film was playing on-screen. Some benshi became more famous than the film actors and would be advertised on movie posters.
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TIL there exists a large online community of ‘scambaiters’: individuals who are devoted to tricking Nigerian 419 scammers into performing hilarious and often humiliating challenges.