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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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PYp7g TIL during a drill in 1943, the USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa which was carrying US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the time. The entire crew was rumored to have been arrested when they returned to shore.
R7NXw TIL in the 50s there was a nuclear bomb test in the Australian Outback. Aboriginals thought a spirit killed all of the kangaroos for them. They ate them and died of radiation poisoning.
R5aa9 TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted.
Kg7a Today I learned movie trailers used to come after the movie - “trailed” the movie but no one would stay after the film to watch them.
5YZRQ TIL “Spaghettification” is a legit Astronomy term that explains what happens when a person falls into a black hole.