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TIL grapes are toxic to dogs?!

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69rjm TIL of the Pacific Mandrone Tree (Arbutus menziesii). Native to Western Coastal North America, it has a flakey deep orange-red bark which gives the appearance that the tree is molting.
Ypb7W TIL Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was elected with a historic landslide majority in 1984, and a record second majority in 1988. Since 1997, he and his wife reside part of the year in their Palm Beach house and hang out at private billionaires clubs
8oR4 TIL that in terms of price per kilo, saffron can be up to three times as expensive as gold - with 1kg averaging over $130,000.
x6BLw TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
4XLNg TIL that Bayer, one of the biggest pharmaceutical company, was involved in human trafficking during WWII, where they bought groups of women from Auschwitz to conduct secrets experiments on them.