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TIL that J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide which was how the Dementors were put in the Harry Potter Series.

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8exGZ TIL an Afghan immigrant invented and sold the process for Minute Rice to General Mills.
R8Ra TIL in 1997, the pilot of an A-10 attack jet turned off his radio and transponder for no apparent reason and flew hundreds of miles off course during a training mission, later crashing into a mountainside in Colorado. No explanation for the pilot’s actions was ever found.
AgAd TIL Donald Trump inherited 400 million dollars from his father.
l76Aa TIL that the HBO Feature Presentation intro song has an official full length version with lyrics
XERER TIL, the author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, is most responsible for the creation of Thanksgiving being a national holiday.