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TIL in guide dog "training camp", puppies with the least attention from the mother dog were the most likely to become guide dogs; whereeas puppies who received the most licks and milk from mom tended to be seeing-eye dog washouts.

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5YmWr TIL that French people referred to Marie Antoinette as ", l'Autrichienne" which literally means Austrian woman but with emphasis on word "chienne" which means "bitch". So she was called Austrian bitch.
enKD TIL Kevin Carter, who two months after he won a Pulitzer for a photo of a vulture stalking a starving child in the Sudan, killed himself and in his suicide note wrote, “I am haunted by the vivid memories…of starving or wounded children…”
La6P TIL: The region that is now Pakistan shifted from Buddhism and Hinduism to Islam, largely due to mass forced conversions and persecution.
P1p9n TIL "AC/DC" is an abbreviation meaning "alternating current/direct current" electricity
QJENk TIL A scene was deleted from Borat (2006) due to an unusually patient supermarket manager.