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TIL Acai berries contain theobromine and are as dangerous to dogs as chocolate

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P4rO TIL in 1951, MGM owed the dog that played Lassie $40,000 in back pay. Planning on ending the franchise and in lieu of payment MGM gave full rights to the Lassie trademark to the dog’s trainer, who then spun it off into a TV show that ran for 571 episodes.
jN0dM TIL Dave Grohl only knew Kurt Cobain for about three years and they weren’t very close.
v14R TIL a former top narcotics officer made DVDs on how to hide your stash of pot
Ypgmr TIL: A blind mechanical engineer named Ralph Teetor invented cruise control in 1945 after riding with his lawyer, who had a nasty habit of speeding up and slowing down too frequently. It was originally called "Speedostat".
GBj1 TIL that some modern humane livestock handling systems were designed by Temple Grandin, an Autistic woman who didn’t even talk until she was nearly 4