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TIL elephants (and other animals) can suffer from PTSD.

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w6EW TIL that the Apollo astronauts were denied life insurance. So before each mission, they would autograph hundreds of pictures that their families could sell in case they died.
5dmr TIL “Goblet of Fire” is much longer than the first three books because JK Rowling unintentionally created a giant plot hole and had to spend the rest of the book trying to fix it
RWJ7 TIL “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman was only able to get his comic green-lit because he told Image Comics that there would be a plot twist revealing that the zombie apocalypse was caused by aliens who were using the zombies to weaken humanity’s defenses. It was a lie.
9KoG TIL that the French mathematician, Abraham de Moivre, predicted the date of his own death by noticing he slept an extra 15 minutes each day.
R5NQ7 TIL A Catwoman spin-off franchise starring Michelle Pfeiffer was planned after Batman Returns (1992). The project took too long to develop and was eventually scrapped until the early 2000's when the project was revived with Halle Berry.