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TIL frustrated book publishers convinced the New York Times to add a children’s category to their Bestselling book list due to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone holding the #1 spot for 2 years

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BrGVK TIL "The Dog Days of Summer" is a reference to the return of the star Sirius in the night sky
b9ymj TIL that Italian is often the second language of most older native Italians, and while the locals are said to speak different, they actually predate modern Italian which became the national language in 1861. The “dialects” are often so different that locals can’t understand the other dialects
X0Xa8 TIL there are trams that survived the bombing of Hiroshima and are still in use today.
5VX98 TIL: In 1994 Karl Wendlinger crashed his formula 1 car in the Monaco Grand Prix and survived a crash that rated 360g’s
wQVW TIL That a bike manufacturer saw a huge drop in shipping damage after it printed a TV on its boxes.