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TIL Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist-mother to read her scripts and deliver her analysis of the psychological motivation of the character Helena is to play.

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Xy9P TIL that around one in four doctors experience depression, but are much less likely to receive treatment due to fear they will be punished professionally. The profession also has one of the highest rates of suicide among all professions.
R5aww TIL Not all dogs that lead blind people are "Seeing Eye Dogs." In order to be a Seeing Eye Dog, the dog must be trained at The Seeing Eye - the oldest existing guide dog school in the world. Dogs who are trained at other schools are known as "guide dogs."
wL5oW TIL rumblestrutting is a guinea pig behavior in which they strut around each other shaking their butts low to emit a rumbling sound. It can sound a lot like purring, but it's part of their herd rituals to determine dominance
GY0Xg TIL that citizenship was granted to pollinators (bees, bats, hummingbirds, butterflies) in a suburb of Costa Rica's capital
R5N56 TIL that dwelling too much on happy memories can lead to "sentimental longing," which is a dangerous form of noatalgia that makes us think "today must be bad, because yesterday was better."