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TIL Dogs can get PTSD and it affects 5-10% of working military dogs

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8ak7Z TIL the Mercedes-Benz G-Class was developed as a result of a suggestion to develop a military vehicle by the Shah of Iran, who at the time was a significant shareholder of the company.
AD014 TIL that the 1st title of “Where the Wild Things Are” was “Where the Wild Horses Are” - until Sendak realized he could not draw a horse. So he drew the Wild Things, modeled after his relatives.
Z8Y5v TIL It is legal in in 45 US states for doctors and medical students to perform pelvic exams on unconscious women for medical training, without explicit consent. This may also be done during consented medical procedures that are unrelated to gynecology.
jwKn TIL Operation Snow White, 136 US gov’t agencies were robbed by the Church of Scientology in the “largest infiltration of the government in history” with “5,000 covert agents” in order to purge documents that were unfavorable of Scientology.
woEdP TIL: In WW2, the Japanese developed Defoliation Bacilli Bombs to launch biological attacks on farmland, reservoirs, wells and populated areas using anthrax, plague fleas, typhoid, cholera, and the bubonic plague. Unit 731 created it, and became bioweapons researchers and were not prosecuted.