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TIL if you preheat your oven and smells like urine, you likely have mice

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AlO4 TIL that cats have no naturally occurring antibodies against dogs blood so can receive dogs blood in life threatening situations. But only once. The second time proves fatal.
4kbNw TIL that those "raw" cashews you buy at the store aren't really raw! Truly raw cashews contain urushiol, the same stuff that makes poison ivy so irritating. To make them safe to eat, cashews are steamed, roasted, or boiled to remove the urushiol.
AD7ya TIL: Max Planck's life was filled with tragedy. His wife died early, his oldest son died in WWI, his two twin daughters both died while giving birth, and lastly, his second son was executed by Nazi Germany because of his participation in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.
d8xMB TIL that, barred from working by the Nazis as a Jewish actor, Leon Reuss tricked them into celebrating him as an Aryan idol by adjusting his dialect to that of mountain farmers, growing his beard, bleaching his hair by bathing every 10 days in diluted hydrogen peroxide, & claiming to be a peasant.
Xkdr TIL that in the midst of the Vietnam war the dead body of Ho Chi Minh was secretly transported to a jungle cave, where it was embalmed by Soviet experts.