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TIL that in order for Voldemort’s name to spell out to “Je Suis Voldemort” in the French translations of Harry Potter, they had to make his middle name ‘Elvis’

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7PJ7 TIL That the recession of the early 2000s and the 2008–2012 global recession wiped out all middle class income gains for the last 15 years.
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