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TIL that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has a brief after credit scene displaying a new book written by a confused Gilderoy Lockhart

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ANGeo TIL that the first female US senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, was also the last congressperson to ever own slaves.
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BgWlD TIL Biplanes were still winning victories in WWII (and not just naval torpedo bombers)
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