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TIL lemons and limes are toxic to dogs and cats and their reaction is due to how unpleasant it is.

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e9mg TIL: In 1976, Eric Clapton made a speech at a concert to vote for Enoch Powell to stop Britain from becoming “a black colony”, to “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out”, and repeatedly shouted “Keep Britain White”. Rock Against Racism was formed, in response.
Zl6Q TIL that the Hindu god Shiva intends to destroy the universe with dance
QNK49 TIL about sesquizygotic twins, which are neither identical nor fraternal, but a rare middle ground with a split egg and two separate sperm.
rBg4 TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military; instead, it wants the Americans to tell them what to do.
Brm6D TIL exactly 57 years ago, JFK gave his Ich bin ein Berliner ("I am a Berliner") speech in the backdrop of the Berlin Wall. “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”