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TIL that a landing gear door from MH370 — the Malaysian plane deliberately crashed into the Indian Ocean by its pilot in 2014 — was found years later being used as a washing board by a fisherman’s wife in Madagascar

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b6pma TIL that dog allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for U.S. businesses which serve the public, to refuse service to people using service animals. If someone in the business is allergic to dogs, both the person with the dog allergy and the person with the service dog should be accommodated
AD8px TIL about explosives. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
bNOa TIL Alfred Hitchcock shot no more footage than absolutely necessary, on the irrefutable premise that the studio could hardly throw anything out of his movies if there was nothing else to put in.
b9wdN TIL Hugh Laurie gave Lin-Manuel Miranda the idea for the song "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton after guest starring on House in 2009. Miranda mentioned to Laurie he was trying to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies and "without blinking, he improv'd at me, 'Awwww, you'll be back'."
d865K TIL that even a gentle human voice is enough to make apex predators such as mountain lions flee in terror