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TIL in 2013, a service dog named Kirsch and his owner were both awarded Master’s degrees in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Kirsch received his for attending all of his owner’s classes.

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Bo1r TIL that in reference to the biblical figure, Onan, who was condemned for the sin of masturbation, noted satirist and wit Dorothy Parker alleges she also named her canary Onan “because he spilled his seed on the ground”.
4kddo TIL a group of parents sued the San Francisco Unified School District to allow middle school students to take accelerated math classes again.
jNOaM TIL Triscuits are salted on one side only
woZn7 TIL that there exists a god of stupidity. His name is Koalemos (Κοάλεμος), and he's a minor Greek diety.
OReg TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their vision restored though surgery, and no, they couldn’t.