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TIL Siri has Harry Potter spell commands that actually work on your iPhone

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Oo8Gg TIL that the man who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was also a fighter pilot and an intelligence officer who helped Winston Churchill convince the American government to secretly fight Nazi Germany before they joined World War 2.
Kw6J TIL Monopoly was originally intended to teach the player the broken nature of Capitalism
NK48 TIL that despite Alzheimer’s Disease killing nearly as many people every year as cancer (in the U.S.), it receives only a tenth of the funding from the government that cancer does.
PYLLV TIL that a major reason Florida appears to have so many crazy people is that the state's transparency laws give the media access to all arrest reports.
awmVA TIL that Cambodia is the only country in the world to have a real building on its flag. Angkor Wat, a Hindu-Budist temple, has become a symbol of Cambodia, which appears on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.