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TIL that after a turbulent flight in the early 1980's, Aretha Franklin developed aviophobia and traveled by bus to get to concerts and other events from that point on.

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o0DR TIL that billionaire Richard Branson suffered from dyslexia and was a poor academic student who only went to school until he was 16. On his last day there his headmaster told him he Would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.
wxEP TIL Adult incest is legal in New Jersey.
D1bxP TIL that a professor who ran a long running study on a pitch drop missed every single drop. One in 1977 because he went home tired, another in 1988 because he went to get a cup of tea, and in 2000 due to a malfunctioned webcam. When the next drop finally fell in 2014, he had died 8 month earlier
LQN6r TIL A Canadian Institute of Technology installed sleep pods in its campus library so students can lie down for a proper sleep if they should need it. However staff sit about 15 feet away and nappers are under video surveillance to prevent more than solo sleepers
0wwVy TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.