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TIL avocados are poisonous to birds, cats, dogs, rabbits, and basically ALL pets.

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9wxvm TIL Musician Harry Nilsson, whose work took him away from home often, let friends and fellow musicians stay at his London apartment while he was on the road. Cass Elliott of The Mamas & The Papas died there on July 29, 1974. Four years later Keith Moon of The Who would die in the very same room.
JYPg1 TIL in 1978 an undergrad student notified the chief structural engineer of Citicorp Center in Manhattan that the building would collapse in strong winds. Realizing the student was correct, the chief contacted NYPD and had a 10-block emergency plan drawn up while they quickly fixed the building.
78kmb TIL when a chicken is exposed to the allergen that makes us allergic to cats, they naturally produce an anti-Fel d1 antibody, known as polyclonal egg IgY antibodies, which they pass along to their eggs.
ZpyeD TIL that trained dogs can help plumbers by sniffing out water leaks
woOo6 TIL former First Lady Barbara Bush’s mother spent time in Europe away from her husband with Alister Crowley who is understood to have undergone a series of sex rituals around this time approximately 8-9 months before Barbara’s birth.