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TIL PayPal Forced An Online Buyer To Destroy An Antique Violin To Get His Money Back After He Buyer Claimed It Wasn’t What He Wanted

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OoxB1 TIL more than half the population of Canada lives south of Seattle
d80ME TIL that in the US, humans are more likely to survive a lightning strike than die from it. Only 10% of lightning strikes cause death.
Z8M6p TIL that when recording the audio book for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Stephen Fry could not say the phrase "he pocketed it" correctly, and he asked JK Rowling to replace it. She refused, and the phrase appears in each of the following 4 books.
KYLOQ TIL - In 1967, Pink Floyd held the first significant concert using quadrophonic (surround sound) technology.
v1aOj TIL that the only Donald Duck film to ever win an Oscar is a Disney propaganda film from 1942 that depicts Donald Duck as a Nazi.