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TIL "the cone of shame" for pets is technically called an "elizabethan collar"

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QAg6 TIL Actor Alan Rickman, who portrayed Snape in the Harry Potter films, knew the full story of the character from the very beginning. When he was asked by directors why he delivered lines certain ways he would say that he “knew something they didn’t.”
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