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TIL Emma Watson almost wasn’t Hermione in the Half-Blood Prince. She had considered not returning but decided that she wouldn’t be able to watch someone else play Hermione.

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YpxYv TIL that in the last days of WW1, the Germans blew up all the French factories, bridges and railways they could and flooded the mines in France's most industrial area. This was the reason why France asked reparations from Germany, French economy needed that to survive after what the Germans had done
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