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

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9nNp TIL that Under Armour, an American company, uses a non-American spelling of “armour” (with a “u”) not because it has ties to somewhere like the UK or Canada but because the founder was “trying to get a cool toll-free phone number.”
x6lKD TIL that the killer in the first modern detective novel was an orangutan
PA0V TIL: During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from german handcuffs.
kOwg4 TIL that the name of the eponymous character "STAN" from Eminem's biggest hit song of the same name ,has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous, maniacal, overly obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality; the term has since been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
jVAp TIL In 1995, House Democrats defeated a Republican bill for a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits