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TIL that in Japan, rōnin (the term for a masterless samurai) also nowadays refers to someone who is unemployed

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Z87vY TIL the person who is blind or visually impaired listens to the flow of traffic, determines when it is safe to cross, and then signals the dog to go forward. However, if a car is coming, the dog is taught to refuse to obey the command.
ByDr TIL that when Bill Cosby got his Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst his dissertation was on Fat Albert.
5NE8 TIL that George Washington warned about political parties being bad in his Farewell Address
jWME TIL that the Burmese Python infestation in the Florida Everglades likely comes from the destruction of a 900 snake breeding facility during Hurricane Andrew in 1992
gJ1D TIL of Mrs. Miller, a middle-aged housewife with no formal music training, whose first album “Mrs. Miller’s Greatest Hits” consisted of badly sung covers of popular pop songs from bands such as The Beatles. Her album reached #15 on the Billboard’s Top Albums chart in 1966.