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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

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j6rvj TIL: The Berklee School of Music was named after the founders son: Lee Elliot Berk.
ANL1g TIL that the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
OoeM6 TIL: Joel Osteen and family had to be escorted off of a flight after his wife allegedly assaulted a flight attendant.
lg8a TIL that during the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers defended themselves by fixing simple wire nets on windows to repel grenades. The Russians responded by attaching fish hooks to the grenades so they would stick to the nets.
16VGX TIL about Yang Jingyu: a Chinese resistance leader who fought the Japanese during WWil. Yang was encircled & killed after 5 days of fighting alone in the wild. An autopsy found only bark and grass roots in his stomach. His desecrated body was later given a proper burial due to fear of his ghost.