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TIL Stephen King wrote a handwritten review for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in which he said Dolores Umbridge was “the best fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter.”

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NXbpJ TIL John dillernand is a danish children's tv show about a man with a very long penis who uses it (through clothing) to grab things, fly like a helicopter and tame lions with
69lkQ TIL bulls are given septum piercings to make it easier to control them
d70j TIL Kara Hultgreen became the first female fighter pilot, despite having low scores which normally would end your career. She later fatally crashed her F-14 in a landing attempt.
NXVmP TIL about Miss Belvedere, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that Tulsa, Oklahoma buried in a vault beneath the lawn of the city courthouse as a time capsule to be opened in 2007. It contained among other things a lady's purse including bobby pins, tranquilizers, cigarettes, and an unpaid parking ticket.
paw8 TIL Lincoln, NE was named after Abraham Lincoln as a ploy to keep Nebraska’s capital as Omaha. Many people in Nebraska had been sympathetic to the Confederate cause and it was assumed that the legislature would not change the capital if the new capital were named after Abraham Lincoln