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TIL the son of the man who founded conversion therapy came out as gay.

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VMmx8 TIL that bumblebees have the most Latin name - BOMBUS and certain subgenus name is even more bombastic - MEGABOMBUS
4Ly6 TIL A South African IT company preferred to use a pigeon to transport a 4GB flash drive over 80 km (50 mi) instead of using the country’s biggest ISP’s ADSL. Including downloading, it took two hours for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to tranfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.
nAAr TIL Omar bin Laden (one of Osama bin Laden’s sons) was supposedly denied a British spousal immigration visa because he did not provide his fathers permanent address
6EAb7 TIL Harriet Tubman had narcolepsy. She developed it after getting hit in the head with a 2lb weight and suffering a TBI. Wanted ads used to describe her as having “a habit of abruptly falling asleep.”
xVYPb TIL of the Mid-Atlantic accent, a combination of American and British English that no one "actually spoke...unless educated to do so", a fashion from the Northeastern US. Christopher Plummer, Katharine Hepburn, FDR, Julia Child, Gore Vidal, Sideshow Bob, and Mark Hamill's Joker are noted examples.