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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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Zev TIL there’s a floating island the size of a football field in Springfield, Massachusetts that destroys fences and sheds as it occasionally moves around.
XRV8 TIL that Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist from San Diego, avoided a traffic fine by publishing a paper called The Proof of Innocence, for which he was also awarded a special prize of $400.
ParL TIL Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking with lung cancer
p8a7b TIL while waiting for his audition for 'The Office', John Krasinski was telling someone about how he was worried the producers were going to screw the show up because of how great the British version is. The person he was talking to was Greg Daniels, the shows executive producer.
N4w6 TIL “&” and “and” mean different things in movie credits. Two writers’ names joined with “&” means they collaborated, while “and” means they worked on the script at different times.