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TIL that quidditch from Harry Potter has been adapted into a real-life sport, in which the players use brooms, but run instead of flying

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a8nNZ TIL that the opening and ending theme songs to "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" are never played exactly the same in any of its 900+ episodes. Each episode used the same medley for the first 8 bars, and the rest was improvised and recorded, live, by jazz piano virtuoso John Costa.
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