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TIL intelligent disobedience occurs when a service animal trained to help a disabled person goes directly against the owner’s instructions in an effort to make a better decision. This behavior is a part of the dog’s training and is central to a service animal’s success on the job.

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EgrPw TIL the Japanese history textbook controversies involve controversial content in government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education of Japan. The controversies primarily concern the nationalist right efforts to whitewash the actions of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
YpomG TIL, in 2015, brothers John and Geof Bitmead modified a Daewoo Matiz to resemble the red and yellow 'Little Tikes' car. The car cost £30,000 to build, and was put on auction for £21,500; it failed to sell.
OomLL TIL Natives in Canada had a traditional gift giving holiday nearly identical to Christmas called Potlatch until it was outlawed for being unchristian, hundreds of natives were sent to prison for continuing to celebrate it from 1921 until the law was finally repealed in the 1950s.
W7jwB TIL No federal legislation specifically opposing lynching was passed in the US until 2022
4kgOa TIL “Bésame Mucho” (“Kiss Me a Lot”) was written in 1941 by Consuelo Velasquez, who was about 15 years old at the time, in bolero style. Inspired by the Nightingale Aria from the opera “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, she said that she had never been kissed when she wrote the song.