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TIL Seeing eye dogs are taught to poop on command so their blind owners can know when they go.

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P97n TIL that Iceland decided against bailing out the banks, wrote a new constitution to reduce the power of money, and had the fastest recovery from the recession.
ZXpv TIL If you marry your 3rd cousin, your kids are actually healthier than the general population
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dDww9 TIL before 9/11, New York's deadliest disaster was an excursion steamboat sinking in 1904 with 1,021 deaths and 431 survivors (most could not swim at the time).