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TIL that there was a group of middle aged women called “Snapists” who believed that they were married to Severus Snape on the ‘astral plane’ and that he controlled their lives. An independent researcher published an in-depth paper on the matter.

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1xa4 TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast
D1xNj TIL a man had a heart attack at a grocery store in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived and he survived.
PwZw TIL there are fish that can induce LSD-like hallucinations when eaten. The effects can last several days and are known as “the chief of ghosts” in Hawaii and “the fish that makes dreams” in Arabic.
wOWJ TIL The Black Death killed half of the current Norweigan population in 1349. Because of this, Norway couldn’t sustain a kingdom and they were soon in a union with Sweden and Denmark.
jdla TIL that when Harald Bohr (brother of Niels Bohr), noted Danish mathematician & footballer, defended his doctoral thesis the audience consisted of more football fans than mathematicians.