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TIL Service dogs in the US do not require any documentation. You can literally take any dog, anywhere, and say thay it is a service dog.It is illegal for the business to deny you(and your dog) service.

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OGgj4 TIL The 1967 adaptation of Ulysses was considered so vulgar in New Zealand, theaters would play it to gender segregated audiences. The offensive parts were only 1 F-word and a character describing oral sex.
ADagl TIL that "Baby Huey" was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died at age 26 after releasing a single unsuccessful album. The album later became very influential on early hiphop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of hiphop tracks
yQ1Ja TIL about the "Well to Hell" hoax. The hoax suggested a wealthy Russian man drilled a hole many miles deep into the Earth eventually finding a cavern, and with heat resistant equipment, recorded the screams of the damned. The hoax travelled the globe.
6EJdY TIL that most of the 9/11 hijackers had no idea that they were on a suicide mission. Evidence shows that the majority likely believed that they were taking the planes hostage as a means of leveraging the release of Al-Qaeda prisoners. Only the men trained to fly the planes knew the truth.
1ZDr TIL A swimmer in the 2000 Olympics had taken up swimming only eight months earlier and had practiced in a 20m(66ft) pool at a hotel. Before the Olympics he had never even seen a 50m(160ft) swimming pool. He won his heat and today he’s the coach of the Equatorial Guinea swimming squad.