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

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KOdnQ TIL about claqueurs—audience members paid to cheer. It was common in theater/opera before fading out 70 yrs ago. The Bolshoi Theater still has them—they give dancers an extra moment to catch their breath at key points. Claqueurs can get revenge on agreement-breakers by applauding at wrong moments.
69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.
jNGkQ TIL that an outlaw isn't any mere criminal, but rather a criminal who has been sentenced to be "outside of the protection of the law". He has no right to trial, and can be killed or persecuted by anybody.
b6bwN TIL that an American explorer found a plastic bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the ocean.
nW07G TIL that the $15MM paid to France for the "Louisiana Purchase" wasn't to purchase the land; it was for the preemptive right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest