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TIL The dementors in Harry Potter were meant to symbolize JK Rowling’s depression.

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nerRr TIL that Sam Houston, for whom the city of Houston is named, was deposed as governor of Texas by the legislature after refusing to support the Confederacy, saying “you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it.”
oYNR TIL The first confirmed Case of AIDS in the US was a 15 year old Missouri boy…in 1969!
5dY8 TIL: J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, compared himself to Vishnu, the destroyer of worlds. (This is an erie video clip)
8agyL TIL on average five Australians a year die trying to save others from drowning
D1NwV TIL A woman was successfully diagnosed in 1984 with a brain tumor, after she began hearing unknown voices in her head that told her she needed to have a brain scan.