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TIL Blind people can get issued a guide horse. Miniature horses are used instead of guide dogs if the person is for example afraid of, or allergic to, dogs.

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6EBnY TIL That in 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated for attempting peace with Palestine.
QJYba TIL about the Satanic Panic, a late 20th century period of religious paranoia which resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of dozens of individuals.
5mnR TIL a genetic disease called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva causes human tissue to turn into bone. “Sufferers are slowly imprisoned by their own skeletons.”
a86ky TIL that the first vending machine was built in the 1st century AD by Heron of Alexandria, the same man who created the first known steam engine
GRN1 TIL a man cut off his hand after he decided that it made him sin and was also possessed by the devil. In the hospital, he demanded it not be reattached. Later he returns and sues the hospital for 3 million dollars for not reattaching his arm.