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TIL that the longer the grass on the lawn (anywhere) is, the less likely it's to get frost...

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D1lPv TIL about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, who worked at the French embassy as an accountant in Beijing in 1964 who had a 20-year affair with a Chinese actress, who turned out to be both a spy and a man in drag. The diplomat claims not to have known that his lover was actually a man.
16JVd TIL there are 2 diseases called childhood dementia and childhood Alzheimer's. Both of these are the result of genetics.
PYOO TIL that legendary American figure Johnny Appleseed set out to plant apple trees for hard cider, not eating.
GYdeQ TIL that the best-selling Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, was written by a Jew whose own Christmas tradition was visiting the grave of his son who died on Christmas day in 1928 at the age of three weeks old. That son was Irving Berlin, Jr.
ZpmJ4 TIL Jason Schwartzman and Nic Cage are first cousins (and Francis Ford Coppola is uncle to both)