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TIL clover lawns stay short, are drought resistant (stay green), resist pet urine, grow in bad soil, need little to no maintenance, and clover is a nitrogen fixer.

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Lk1GP TIL that in 1999 Sergio Motsoeneng finished in the top 10 in famous Comrades Ultra-marathon by exchanging places with virtually identical brother Fika at toilet stops. Brothers were caught after a newspaper published photos showing them wearing watches on opposite wrists.
a8EdN TIL Walgreens Rx bottle caps can be un-childproofed by flipping them upside down and screwing it back on!
jDwv TIL the line in Sk8er Boi, “He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?”, is voted the 4th worst lyrics of all time. (The worst is “I’m serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer”)
8eJgV TIL of the Arkadiko Bridge, the oldest crossable bridge in Europe, dated to Mycenaean Period (c.1300-1190 BCE)
Y7mQv TIL Texas is the only state to have fought two civil wars to protect slavery