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TIL J.K. Rowling cited This Is Spinal Tap’s running joke about the death of their drummer as the inspiration for how Harry Potter’s Defense of The Dark Arts professor vacates their position yearly for various reasons.

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4XX16 TIL that the number 1 billion in most countries in continental Europe equates to 1 million millions instead of 1 thousand millions like it does in many English and Arabic speaking countries, Brazil, and the former Soviet Union countries.
X0vNE TIL Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones had four children before he turned 20, two of them before he was 18
rN4wy TIL the Knight Rider theme song is based on the 1876 ballet "Sylvia" by Léo Delibes
9YZm TIL that Gila Monsters don’t inject their venom but chew vigorously to stimulate the flow of venom from their teeth into the victim
lAl7 TIL an unauthorized Greenpeace publicity stunt timed to coincide with global climate talks in Peru may have destroyed part of the 1500 year-old Nazca Line Hummingbird tracing. The group failed to take proper measures to protect the area, according to their own photos.