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TIL Emotional support insects are a thing and got banned by American Airlines

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kPRm TIL Clint Eastwood directed two movies “Letters from Iwo-Jima” and “Flags Of Our Fathers” that featured the same battle but from opposite perspectives.
ePdD TIL studies indicate that 90% of doctors admit they would reject resuscitation by CPR if they had a choice, compared to 25% of the average public. This is attributed to research showing only 8% of CPR cases actually survive more than 1 month, nearly half of those in a vegetative state.
Y7BNx TIL that for the last 5 years, a dummy is flying through outer space in a sports car.
KkBw TIL Bill Gates bought Q-DOS for $50K, renamed it MS-DOS then sold it to IBM with a $3 per computer royalty
W7YJX TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which infects nearly 250 million people, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America. “It's one of the world's most deadly parasites,” says Susanne Sokolow, a disease ecologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station