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TIL that there are fake Harry Potter books written in China using material from other authors, with titles such as “Harry Potter and the Filler of Big” and “Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”

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VMaek TIL about the world’s first interactive movie from 1967, the Kinoautomat. At nine points during the film the action stops and the audience has to choose between two scenes. Following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.
wLjL6 TIL when British cave dive experts went to Thailand to rescue the lost soccer team, they first had rescue four rescuers who were left behind and forgotten when the cave had to be abandoned due to flooding. The men were asleep on a ledge and had missed the call to evacuate.
neBab TIL about Penile Implants; one of which allows people with Erectile Dysfunction to "Inflate" their family heirloom.
wLyoE TIL Cloacina was the Roman goddess of sewers a poem to her is attributed to Lord Byron, "O Cloacina, Goddess of this place, Look on thy suppliants with a smiling face. Soft, yet cohesive let their offerings flow, Not rashly swift nor insolently slow."
E1AlP TIL of rotationplasty, a surgical procedure that attaches the foot to the upper part of the leg backwards, to remove tumors near the knee joint and help patients with mobility and prosthetics.