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TIL of Harry Potter marathon screenings, where people can watch all eight movies in a row, spending almost 24 hours at the cinema

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wond1 TIL that Pope Gregory IX issued a Papal Bull declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit, which subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe producing an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats, which would otherwise have been hunted by the dead cats.
OoXe6 TIL The robot in Rocky IV was originally built to help kids with autism and its success with Stallone’s own autistic son is how it ended up in the movie
a19o TIL That men receive a 63% longer prison sentence then women for the same crime.
46Xo TIL Los Angeles has an abandoned subway system..
wnZP TIL that “Fuck your ancestor to the eighteenth generation” is a Chinese insult, due to the high respect for one’s ancestors