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TIL Singer Adele won’t play any music festivals because she has a severe panic disorder and can’t perform in front of large audiences

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MeAEb TIL there is a Montana Law that if a student rides a horse to school, the principal has to feed, water, and tend the horse. Six seniors who were aware of this law rode their horses on the last day of school. Their principal did his duty and took care of their horses.
Rlr8 TIL Oscar the Grouch is not Green. He is orange, and muck from a swamp made him green before Season 2 of Sesame Street
nexJo TIL the urge to breathe doesn’t come from lack of oxygen, but from increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream.
xV70k TIL : The "thousand-yard stare" is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.
mNGx TIL billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17m ransom for his kidnapped Grandson. When the teenager’s severed ear arrived, he agreed $3m but only paid $2.2m… the maximum that would be tax deductable. He lent the other $800k to his son on the condition that he pay it back with 4% interest.