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TIL avocados are toxic to most if not all animals, humans are the exception

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xW9g TIL that not only does regularly donating blood help others, but it has shown to reduce the risk of heart attacks by 88%
D9mj TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
JYnQv TIL It's estimated that up to 90% of the wildlife found on Madagascar is found nowhere else on Earth
xdRo TIL that people from different languages arrange pictures of chronological events differently (English speakers from left to right, Hebrew from right to left), and that the Kuuk Thaayorre will arrange them from east to west regardless of the direction they face in the room.
9wLAQ TIL: Lawyer Andrew G. Haley was the world's first practitioner of Space Law. He was was pivotal in founding the International Institute of Space Law which provides guidelines on how the law should apply to space and extraterrestrial beings. He died in 1966, 3 years before the moon landing.