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TIL JK Rowling wrote her first book at age 6, and at age 11, she wrote her first novel, about "seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them."

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M4Z8 TIL The Spindle, the iconic car sculpture seen at the beginning of Waynes World, was dismantled in 2008 to build a Walgreens
dE47 TIL: A woman with no vagina had oral sex, got stabbed, and got pregnant when the stab allowed the sperm to fertalize her egg.
ygXp TIL that in 2013, inmates in Venezuela opened a nightclub inside their prison that included strippers.
5YLJk TIL Space Shuttle Challenger on the mission STS-61-A in 1985 carried 8 people into space from launch to landing, making it the record for the largest crew flown on a single mission
VBGxp TIL the movie 'Die Hard' was Alan Rickman's first role in a feature film. Rickman later revealed that he almost turned down the role because he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make