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

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xVLJB TIL that gladiators rarely fought to death. While around 1 in 10 did die during battle, most gladiators made money fighting - not killing other people.
4kAaX TIL the confederates raided along the south african coastline and made a song about it "Daar kom die alibama"
p8XJG TIL In 1991 , Sergei Maduev : A Soviet-Era Serial Killer, seduced his prosecutor to smuggle a pistol into the Prison. The prosecutor was later sentened to 7 years in prison after an unsuccesful escape attempt by the hardened criminal but was in-love with him anyways!
D1x5P TIL that when an Indian Captain was badly wounded in WW2 Burma and thought to be on his deathbed, he was quickly awarded a Military Cross because at the time it couldn't be given posthumously. He survived and became the first Indian to be promoted to Field Marshal.
0wYaA TIL California prison inmates help fight forest fires.