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TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one

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5YQa9 TIL J.K. Rowling wrote to Natalie McDonald, a leukemia patient, the ending of The Goblet of Fire a year early. She died before reading the email so Rowling named a character after her. That character was sorted into Gryffindor.
4XmB6 TIL that Canadians do say about differently, just not in the aboot way. Canadian raising makes it so that the words clout and cloud have different pronunciations of the sound [ow].
X7Ak TIL in 1974 there was a single man flying machine called “Williams WASP X-Jet.” It had no wings, and no propellers. It could fly up to 60 MPH, had a service ceiling of 10,000ft and could fly for nearly 45 minutes. (Video in the link)
1aEOD TIL that in in Zimbabwe, inflation had risen so high in 2008 that ATMs for one major bank gave a "data overflow error" and stopped customers' attempt to withdraw money because it had too many zeroes
JYJPj TIL that Richard Nixon appointed four Supreme Court justices during his time as president of the United States.