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TIL “Goblet of Fire” is much longer than the first three books because JK Rowling unintentionally created a giant plot hole and had to spend the rest of the book trying to fix it

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VMaxQ TIL Abd al-Rahman I family was overthrown from Syria AD750. He escaped to present day Andalusia in Spain and established that “Golden Age” of Western Islam in which Muslims, Jews and Christians lived for an extended period of Convivencia.
k7wm TIL that scientists at Chernobyl shot at radioactive material with an AK-47 in order to break off chunks for analysis
b6MyE TIL that Horace Tucker, the first mayor of North Las Vegas, committed two murders after leaving office.
N7Wke TIL the majority of humans eat rice as a staple crop and 2004 was designated the "International Year of Rice". It was the first time in the history of the United Nations that an entire year was devoted to a commodity.
oBVr8 TIL During the Blitz in World War II, some British farmers painted their cows with white stripes in case they wondered onto roads in the dark during blackouts.