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

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Oovg1 TIL: Buckey O'Neill of the "Rough Riders" insisted officers shouldn't duck when shot at. To a concerned fellow soldier he blew cigarette smoke and said, "Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me." The same day, a Spanish bullet fatally struck him through the mouth and out the skull.
XlWP TIL: That Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the end times started on October 1, 1914 and that Satan is controlling the world’s governments
LkNXP TIL: The Nuremburg Code stipulates "voluntary, informed consent" for research participants, and experiments that might lead to death/disability are unacceptable. U.S.A. violated The Code throughout the 1950-70s w/ large scale releases of bacteria in NYC subway, on PA Turnpike, and National Airport.
WQmd TIL if an electron were the size of our solar system, it would differ from a perfect sphere by less than the width of a human hair
mxR7P TIL Fruit Flies were the first living organisms in outer space. They were launched in a captured Nazi V-2 rocket on Feb. 20, 1947. The flies reached an altitude of 68 miles (108 km) and were recovered alive by parachute.