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TIL A Minnesota man once sprayed toilet-papering teens on his property, with a squirt gun full of fox urine

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Eg0BW TIL you can trademark smells, e.g, Crayola Crayons have a registered scent mark, described as “a unique scent of pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay”.
p8WZ4 TIL the Guinness World Record for highest fall without a parachute is held by Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who was the only survivor after a bomb went off on a commercial flight over Czechoslovakia in 1972. She fell 10,160 metres (33,330 ft) and recovered fully aside from a small limp.
oRNKL TIL that the actor Ken Curtis, famous for playing the crotchety deputy Festus on the TV show Gunsmoke, started his career playing clarinet in Tommy Dorsey's band and took over as singer when Frank Sinatra left the band.
QJXn9 TIL Carrots were originally purple. The orange ones we are familiar with today started as a hybrid intended to be sweeter.
yQAGJ TIL that Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett from Facts of Life) divorced her husband when he came out of the closet after 25-yrs of marriage.