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TIL that dogs can be trained in sign language

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KK6Q TIL of Ben Holmes, who faked his own death in 1980 to avoid being framed for arson, and was shot by his wife twenty years later when he confronted her for marrying another man.
XE9W8 TIL that women and children first was never the standard. And that the survival of so many women and children by the sinking of titanic was an outlier
bXKa TIL that Pixar started as a hardware company whose core product was the Pixar Image Computer, a system primarily sold to government agencies and the medical community, and made short animations to show off the capabilities of their product.
Boky TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering ‘financial compensation’ to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000
VVY8 TIL that modern hospitals have rounded walls instead of sharp corners to deter the build-up of dirt and germs.