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TIL that blind people can get a miniature guide horse if they don’t want a guide dog or are allergic to dogs.

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8aXgb TIL in the mid-2000s Kevin Smith was approached about the possibility of a Jay & Silent Bob/Hellraiser crossover as sort of a 21st century Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein. They would have opened the box and their version of Hell would have been rehab.
wLpPM TIL at the time of the dinosaurs, Earth completed one rotation in about 23 hours.
7nW7 TIL Tim Burton didn’t direct Nightmare Before Christmas, he wrote/produced it. Henry Selick directed it.
69l48 TIL in order to avoid a $94 AUD excess charge for bringing a second carry-on bag onto his flight, James McElvar (from the group Rewind) decided to empty the bag & put on all of its contents. With 12 layers of clothes on, he became violently sick during the flight & collapsed from heat exhaustion.
WXZ8 TIL, After bombing of Hiroshima some people moved to Nagasaki, 165 of these survived both the atomic bombings