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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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jn4n TIL lab researchers have been able to manipulate specific memories using beams of laser light, creating, deleting, and altering emotional content: positive memories have been rendered negative and vice-versa.
RbR8 TIL that the terms “white meat” and “dark meat” come from the Victorian era when people were too embarrassed to use the words “leg” and “breast”
N7EQP TIL About the Paternoster; a largely obsolete style of elevator that has no doors and is continuously in motion.
Q6Ve TIL that unlike James Bond, real MI6 agents don’t need a license to kill because everything they do outside the UK is already illegal. The UK spy agency makes Bond-like gadgets for operatives but, as one said after retiring, they “frequently fail to work upon arrival at our destination”.
LQAOd TIL that Frank Caprio’s dad reprimanded him for refusing to forgive $300 in parking tickets to a single mom on his first day as a judge, inspiring his compassionate approach to justice throughout his career