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TIL employees are only allowed to ask two questions to determine if an animal is in fact a service animal.

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0dPM5 TIL the Madrid Open experimented with blue clay tennis courts to make it easier to follow the ball on TV. But the courts proved too unsafe for players due to the process of dyeing the clay, resulting in slippery and uneven courts; blue clay was subsequently banned.
Yaov TIL that in 1997 for April Fools, many comic strip artists switched comics and each drew another one’s comic. It was called the Great Comic Strip Switcharoo.
vlAR TIL that a blind person might carry a white cane (or stick) meanwhile a deafblind person will carry a white cane with two red bands added. Green canes mean “low vision”.
wo8aM TIL: Garbage trucks in Taiwan use Für Elise to let people know that the garbage pickup is happening, in kind of the same way ice cream trucks use tunes in the U.S. to get people to line up for frozen dessert.
e0w46 TIL of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's lyricist, who wrote Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte. An ordained priest, he was banished from Venice for living in a brothel, narrowly avoided execution in the French Revolution, and wound up running a grocery store in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.