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TIL Harry Potter has been translated to Ancient Greek so that students of the dead language would have something fun to decipher.

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p8rDN TIL that Cheez-Its aren’t squares. They’re 26 by 24 mm (1.0 by 0.95 inch).
78LaM TIL About Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Grandson of Queen Victoria and nephew to Kings Edward VIII and George VI. A member of German nobility he was a high ranking Nazi official and avoided imprisonment due to ill health and the intercession of some British Royals.
LkMYp TIL thanks to the dedicated evaluation by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (a young pharmacologist who had just started working at the Food and Drug Administration), Thalidomide was banned in the USA and worldwide in 1962. The drug caused massive birth defects such as missing ears and flipper limbs.
xV5m7 TIL that the Guanches, the native people of the Canary Islands, had, despite living on, obviously, islands, no knowledge of constructing boats or navigating them. This led to the development of seven different cultures on the seven Canary Islands.
1671P TIL that Rolex is a Non-Profit Organization.