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TIL Service dogs are trained to know when they are on duty. When their harness is on, they know they are at work. When you take it off they instantly become playful and energetic.

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7ryD7 TIL Marlon Brando refused to memorise his lines in 'Last Tango in Paris'. Cue cards were posted around & out of the frame. His eyes lifting upward in one act was not spontaneous dramatic acting but a search for his next cue card. And once asked if he could "write lines on Maria Schneider's rear end"
vBVK TIL branched alkane Tetraethylmethane is also called Nazinonane.
x64Qk TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of the applicants with a perfect SAT score between 2008-2013.
Ypwpr TIL that in 1942 the US effected gas rationing; the goal was not to save on gas but to conserve the rubber used in tires to benefit the war effort.
XEAn8 TIL that "survivorshp bias" has its name from WWII where engineers failed to increase bomber pilot's chance of surviving when they increased armour on bombers where bullet holes where most often found until a statistician then proposed to increase armour where holes couldn't be found.