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TIL alcohol is as toxic as chocolate and onions to dogs.

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GAQa4 TIL While making SORCERER, William Friedkin had trouble detonating a giant kaoba tree for a key scene in the film using his SFX guy, so he hired an arsonist from Queens named "Marvin the Torch" who showed up on the set and blew it up perfectly in one take.
vG5L TIL Despite being nominated five times, Gandhi never won a Nobel Peace Prize. In 1948, the year he died, no one was awarded the prize as there were no suitable living candidates.
PmJn TIL that duct tape therapy for warts has not actually been shown to work.
NXPbJ TIL In order to prepare for his work "The Raft of the Medusa" T.Géricault obsessively studied dead bodies in order to depict them accurately. He observed dying patients at a hospital and brought severed limbs into his art studio, including a severed head he spend two weeks observing
grXeW TIL that the black martin fish (the worlds fastest sea animal) can swim just as fast in water as the cheetah runs on land