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TIL that there are guide mini horses who are service animals for blind people.

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GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.
yQR0w TIL: To get a warm drink can cold takes20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes.
gMRJL TIL that the concept of the "double negative" does not exist in every language and in many languages, including Portuguese, French, Russian, Greek, Spanish, Old English and Italian, the use of multiple negatives serves to intensify rather than cancel out a previous negative.
E1JWW TIL: Anti-communist South Vietnam used a song written by a communist as their national anthem without his permission
WnRB TIL Yoga more dangerous than previously thought, and causes as many injuries as other sports; it can also exacerbate existing pain, with 21 per cent of existing injuries worsened.