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TIL that grapes can cause kidney failure in cats.
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TIL that the inventor of Vaseline believed in the medicinal properties of the product he ate a spoonful of it everyday. He lived to be 96.
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TIL that Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" was the first YouTube music video to reach 100 million views, doing so back in 2008
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TIL of the Cathedral Effect. When ceiling height is conspicuously low or high it can promote different kinds of thinking, with higher ceilings promote abstract thinking and creativity and lower ceilings promoting concrete and detail-oriented thinking.
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TIL After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever, and her job to the great Chicago fire, Mary "Mother" Jones became a labor organizer. She organized a march of working children from Philadelphia to New York, and her speeches provoked workers to organize during the Coal Wars.
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TIL that toward the end of his career, acclaimed film director Sam Peckinpah, whose work includes The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, and Straw Dogs, was so desperate for money as a result of his drug habit that he agreed to direct a movie based on the 1975 trucker novelty song "Convoy."