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TIL Anthony Hopkins has Aspergers

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EgYld TIL the assumption that Harry Potter books have increased literacy among young people is "largely a folk legend." Research found no increase in reading among children and that children who read Harry Potter books were not more likely to go on to read outside the fantasy and mystery genres.
jN5Wp TIL that a horse named Galileo has semen thats worth $49,000,000 per gallon. He has created dozens of winning race horses and one of his children also has very expensive semen.
nW6Xb TIL That in 2003, a pizza delivery man named Brian Wells robbed a PNC bank while wearing an explosive neck collar. The collar exploded when apprehended by police. The purpose of the robbery was to obtain money for a woman who can then pay for a hitman to kill her father for the inheritance.
epngb TIL that the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest complete Bible in the Latin Vulgate, was produced in Northumbria (North-East England) in around 700 AD as a gift for Pope Gregory II
ERV TIL the meaning of the word mortgage is literally “death contract”