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TIL that grapes can cause kidney failure in cats.

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jpXE TIL that Joseph Goebbel’s step-son, Harald Quandt, owns nearly half of BMW together with his family industrial empire.
5YEMD TIL of Banana Equivalent Dose, an informal measurement of ionizing radiation exposure in comparison to radioactivity dose one is exposed to by eating one average-sized banana.
N5xP TIL In 1904, tea bags were invented accidentally. The inventor, Thomas Sullivan, decided that it was cheaper to send small samples to potential customers in silk bags instead of boxes. The recipients believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was flooded with orders for his “tea bags”.
OpOR TIL when PepsiCo entered India, the Indian government stipulated part of its local profits be used to purchased tomatoes. This requirement worked for PepsiCo, which also owned Pizza Hut at the time.
GYm0N TIL that the US $2 bill is still being produced in large numbers. The apparent scarcity of the bill is caused by collectors taking it out of circulation because they think that it is rarer than it actually is.