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TIL The cheapest and most organic weedkiller for cracks or pathways is simple. Boiling water.

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d8WB7 TIL that Boston Corbett, the Union army solider who fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, later went insane and was incarcerated in a mental asylum (Topeka Asylum for the Insane) in 1887. He escaped from the facility a year later and was never seen again.
VwyQ TIL that Wild Bill Hickok always had a personal rule to never play poker with his back facing the door. The one time he did, he was shot in the back of the head and killed.
loA5G TIL It's believed that the plane crash that killed John Denver on Oct 12 1997 was due in part to him running out of fuel during flight, being unable to see his fuel gauge, and a design flaw in accessing his reserve fuel tank switch.
OGG5R TIL about The Confess Project, a non-profit which trains barbers to be mental health advocates for black men. Normalizing discussions of mental health within a community heavy on MH stigma.
4lKJ TIL that after assessing over 1,800 studies, scientists have concluded (again) that homeopathic remedies are completely ineffective