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TIL that Nintendo tried to buy the rights to the Harry Potter series from JK Rowling

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KOPOa TIL that 8 million years ago, there existed giant rodents somewhere between the size of a moose and a bison. The Phoberomys pattersoni was a relative of the modern guinea pig and looked like a massive capybara with a long tail.
4kLYJ TIL: Con Artists Sold Fake Goya Painting, Got Paid In Photocopied Bills
awQ0M TIL that when Bill Withers debuted with “Ain’t no Sunshine” in 1971, he refused to leave his job as an assembler in a factory, believing that the music business was a fickle industry
VkmG TIL: In 1981, a woman was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by deprogrammers that her parents hired in attempt to remove her from her relationship. Her charges against her parents and the deprogrammers were dismissed in trial.
V91G TIL that rolling the tongue or “taco” is commonly taught as a genetic trait in classrooms despite being debunked numerous times.