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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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xZO7 TIL that there is not much science backing the idea that salt is bad for you.
v199D TIL that for much of the 19th Century, former Confederate states considered Thanksgiving an act of "Northern Aggression". Before the Civil War Governor Wise of Virginia dismissed the holiday as "theatrical national claptrap."
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