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TIL that guide horses exist, just like dogs do. Often miniature horses are used, a breed that is close to dog-sized. The idea dates back to 1943.

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j6emE TIL of British boxer Terry Downes who defeated the legendary “Sugar Ray” Robinson and quipped about the ageing Robinson, “I didn’t beat Sugar Ray, I beat his ghost.”
16aJ7 TIL the Intermarium, a post WW1 proposal to unite former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth land and territories lying between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas
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P17ew TIL about Liu Mingwu, a Chinese beggar and serial killer known as "The Beggar Killer," who attacked and killed at least 23 people, predominantly other beggars, across various cities in China between 2001 and 2002. He claimed he did it because they were "dirty and smelly". He was later executed.