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TIL Non-profit Dog is my CoPilot has shuttled over 15,000 animals from high shelter population areas to adoption centers throughout the US.

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R7Gvj TIL Senegal and other African countries are building a wall of trees across the width of Africa to stop the advancement of the Saharan desert.
4Jw TIL Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist-mother to read her scripts and deliver her analysis of the psychological motivation of the character Helena is to play.
oBGAr TIL many of the scenes in "Elf" were filmed at an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Vancouver. In the 50's, Riverview Hospital was home to more than 4,000 patients. The X Files, Supernatural, Saw, Deadpool 2 and many others have filmed scenes on the site.
rNKQo TIL that Koko the gorilla had a nipple fixation. Former employees of Penny Patterson alleged that Penny would routinely show her nipples to Koko, and ask her employees to do the same. The case was settled out of court.
0w1r1 TIL that the National Art Gallery of Australia holds a monthly 'Sensory Sunday' where people on the autism spectrum, those with social anxiety and other neuro diverse folk can visit works of art in a more relaxed environment