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TIL the first service animal training schools were established in Germany during World War I to enhance the mobility of returning veterans who were blinded in combat.

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wokB7 TIL that in 1978 an entire pulp mill was shipped from Japan to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
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P1kWZ TIL of Louis Wyman - Winner of 1974 New Hampshire Senate Election by just 2 votes, and served only 3 days while marred in an epic dispute then lost a rematch the next year convincingly
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