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TIL the Harry Potter series is the best-selling book series of all-time with 600 million copies sold globally between the seven books.

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7NdP TIL Queen guitarist Brian May built his primary guitar, the “Red Special”, when he was sixteen. It contains parts from a motorbike, bicycle, knitting needle, and the wood is from an 18th century fireplace mantel
woE5o TIL that the Swiss Air Force did not respond to the hijacking of EA Flight 702 because it was outside of office hours 08:00-12:00 - French and Italian aircraft escorted it to Geneva airport
MeRDb TIL the iconic Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was created by only 9 people.... and 8 of them had never once worked on a video game before!
4X8NN TIL Bill Crawford an Army private in World War II who assumed to have been killed received his Medal of Honor posthumously. After the war he became a janitor at the Air Force Academy where his identity unknown until a cadet found a picture of him in a book.
X01BQ TIL Greek tragedian Aeschylus died from a tortoise being dropped on his head by an eagle