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TIL that the novelist Stephen King said that Professor Umbridge from the Harry Potter series is the “greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter.”

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7ZZL TIL that trees in Australia have been known to explode.
PYLYw TIL The Pentagon has over 20 fast food restaurants, which include KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and many more
JY7eV TIL about Impostor syndrome, a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".Those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and and do not deserve all they have achieved.
BoaL TIL Nasir ad-Din Tusi, a Persian polymath, developed a theory of evolution by natural selection 600 years before Darwin. He wrote that hereditary variability is the leading force of evolution, and that organisms which can change faster are ‘more variable’, thus giving them an advantage over others
0wLYp TIL the MOSFET (the transistor) is the single most manufactured item in human history, with 13 sextillion (1.3 × 10²²) created since 1960— equivalent to two transistors for every tonne of matter for the entire planet