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

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vPwV7 TIL at her 80th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II quoted Groucho Marx: "Anyone can get old - all you have to do is to live long enough".
Vj8Q TIL while filming The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd saved Carrie Fisher by performing the Heimlich maneuver while she was choking on a Brussels sprout.
Oo10X TIL that preacher Elvy E. Callaway claimed the Garden of Eden was in Bristol, Florida. He reasoned that it is one of only two places in the world where a river "splits into four "(Genesis 2:10). The only other place with this description is a river in Siberia, which is obviously too cold for Eden.
mDMv TIL there is a National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin that has over 5,676 mustards from all 50 states and more than 70 countries.
EOPP TIL: Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”