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TIL Grapes are toxic to dogs

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R5jpw TIL about Ovicula, a plant discovered in 2024 by Big Bend National Park botanist Debra Manley. Named "wooly devil" because of its hairy leaves and ray florets resembling devil horns, it is the first new plant species discovered in a U.S. National Park since 1976.
NXZXP TIL how Canada has a maple syrup emergency reserve, and that someone actually managed to pull off a heist on it
N7e9Q TIL Vietnam vets have told William Shatner how they'd "keep sane" while in POW camps by re-enacting Star Trek episodes
ANQyd TIL that in 1978 a massive fire hit Rio’s Museum of Modern Art (MAM), destroying works by Salvador Dalí, Picasso, Portinari, Matisse, Magritte, Miró and many others
mx1ep TIL that the Chinese use drones equipped with flame-throwers to fight trash stuck in power lines.