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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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wLlXP TIL that there are verbs in the English language with more than one grammatically correct past participle. Examples include the verbs to dwell, to creep, and to burn.
oBOB8 TIL about Bart King, one of the greatest cricketers of all time was an American; The Times (UK) even ran an obituary when he died!
8aLjG TIL of the Heaven's Gate cult who believed an alien space ship was trailing a comet. Several dozen people joined the "Heaven's Gate Away Team" and committed a series of ritual suicides. Among the victims, Thomas Nichols, brother of actress Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura in the original Star Trek.
oN4o TIL Vin Diesel was a telemarketer and he’s still incredible at it.
4mrg TIL That the B-58 Hustler bomber did not have ejection seats, instead they had ejection capsules that would enclose the pilot into an egg-shaped capsule to allow a safer ejection at speeds up to Mach 2 and altitudes higher than 35,000 feet. Pilots with size 12 or higher shoes could lose their toes