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TIL That the ADA allows miniature horses to be used as service animals.

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mx4GE TIL in 1960, soul singer Jesse Belvin played to Arkansas' first ever racially integrated audience. The performance was interrupted twice by white protesters. After the show, Belvin was killed in a head-on collision. It was discovered that his car tires had been slashed.
D7wv TIL In the 1960s, a convent in L.A. agreed to a psychology experiment where the nuns were encouraged to verbalize and respond to their emotions. Within a year more than half the nuns had petitioned to be released from their vows and all that remained was a “small group of radical lesbian nuns.”
0dyxM TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.
aor0 TIL That during his Indian campaign, Alexander the great encountered a tribe that hadn’t discovered fire yet
YpaBd TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he hacked the school computers so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students