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TIL some peanut butters contain xylitol, which is toxic to dogs.

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1xrO TIL Pope Alexander VI ordered the destruction of all art depicting a Semitic Jesus and commissioned a number of paintings depicting a Caucasian Jesus. His son, Cesare Borgia, was the model for these paintings. Thus, the nastiest of all the Borgias, became the iconic Caucasian Jesus.
dLj9 TIL ancient Romans used ammonia from urine to wash togas in a manner simillar to modern day dry cleaning, and the collection of urine was taxed.
5V1jp TIL that Buster Douglas who was the first man to defeat Mike Tyson, was 6 years older than Tyson and had also recently lost his mother.
Ov8R TIL That the left most pillar of the famous Pillars of Creation, is actually 4 Light Years tall. That is equal to roughly 37,844,000,000,000 Kilometers.
p8074 TIL : Belgrade (capital city of Serbia) has one of the greatest strategic positions, in fact so big, that there were 115 battles for it and it was destroyed about 40 times.