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TIL Pixar's "UP" Was Originally About Two Princes, a Floating City, and a strange large bird

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v7K4 TIL a man was found alive in an air pocket on a sunk ship after three days of no water, no food, and in pitch black.
R5aww TIL Not all dogs that lead blind people are "Seeing Eye Dogs." In order to be a Seeing Eye Dog, the dog must be trained at The Seeing Eye - the oldest existing guide dog school in the world. Dogs who are trained at other schools are known as "guide dogs."
JYagk TIL in 2004, Seth Putnam -- vocalist of the grindcore band Anal C**t, whose offensive song titles included "You're Gay" and "You're in a Coma" -- overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma "was just as gay [and] fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was."
J1Kgm TIL that "aubergine" is another name for eggplant
ZpJYB TIL: Pigeons learn via brute force same way as the modern ML does