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TIL Chocolate can be deadly for dogs because it contains theobromine, which they cannot effectively metabolize.

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lokK5 TIL that there is an extremely rare neurological disorder known as "Foreign Accent Syndrome"; persons of any culture, with no prior history of living in a foreign country or speaking its language, can start speaking with a perfect version of its accent, typically after a traumatic brain incident.
Egeko TIL the British English spelling of the word "curb" is "kerb"
ApN7 TIL that in during WWII, Cambridge professor Alfie Maddock was working late into the night, and spilled the UK’s entire supply of plutonium, 10mg, onto a wooden table. He cut a hole in the table, burned it, and managed to recover 9.5mg of it from the ashes.
W7RmA TIL of the Zone of Death an area in the United States where one can legally get away with murder
R7Ok4 TIL that when Kanye was 20, at his first ever record meeting with Columbia records and producer Michael Mauldin, he told the execs that he’d be bigger than Michael Jackson and Jermaine Dupri, not knowing Mauldin was Dupri’s father. Kanye’s offer was nullified and he was asked to leave the offices.