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TIL dogs will sneeze to tell other dogs that they’re playing, so that their rough playing doesn’t turn into a fight

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ADQLa TIL that in 1861, Giuseppe Garibaldi, known as hero of the two worlds and main protagonist in italian unification, voluntereed to president Lincoln and was offered a Major General's commission in the U.S. Army. With only one condition: that the war's objective be declared as slavery's abolition
ZRyo TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies because they weren’t challenging, and he thought they should have been animated
kJnQd TIL wiener dogs (dauchschunds) were bred to scent, chase, and flush out badgers.
M7YyW TIL that although equiped with parachutes while on air ambulance missions during WWII, the Flying Nightingales of the WAAF were instructed not to bail out and stay with the patients if their plane was shot down so that they would be on hand to provide medical support should anyone survive the crash
WMeY TIL That Verizon refused to help search for a 62 disabled patient because he had an unpaid bill on his phone