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TIL of Magic the Miniature Therapy horse, who routinely visited hospital patients needing comfort. She visited one patient who had not spoken for three years; Upon seeing the horse, she said ‘Isn’t she beautiful?’ It caused the staff to break out in tears

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oRkeK TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.
gdQL TIL that the symbols on the first Playstation controllers actually had a purpose. Triangle: A Person’s Viewpoint, Square: A Map, Circle: Yes, and X: No. It was assumed that games released on this console would mostly use controls based on the meanings of these symbols.
69VBY TIL Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment owns Redbox.
BgVwb TIL A company in Japan gives employees who don't smoke six extra days vacation to make up for cigarette break. The company found new policy gave a lot of employees the push to quit smoking
DQedr TIL: It is illegal for a private company to deliver a letter without using a USPS stamp and it being ink cancelled, even if the USPS does not handle the letter.