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TIL Crabbe wasn’t featured in the final two Harry Potter films due to the actor being charged for marijuana possession.

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GYJR5 TIL of Grabel's Law. It goes: "Two is not equal to three, not even for large values of two." Apparently, a professor named Grabel stated this during class, and his students christened it as Grabel's Law.
5VlVk TIL that HBO ordered a 2014 drama series about a “dynastic New York media family and its mogul patriarch” from the creator of Deadwood. It was not picked up.
6kPY TIL modern day Japanese swordsmiths are required by law to use traditional Katana forging techniques, despite the fact that modern day steel does not need to be folded multiple times.
wLbg6 TIL that Allen Lichtman worked with V. Keilis-Borok in designing an exceptionally accurate model to predict wether or not the incumbent party retains the White House. He correctly called results of eight out of the past nine elections, including 2016. This month, he announced that GOP will lose
jNekE TIL that 6-10 billion light years away, there is a void in space 1 billion light years wide. It is completely empty of both normal matter and dark matter. It emits no detectable radiation or light of any kind.