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TIL that Radiohead's lead guitarist Johnny Greenwood played a cameo role as a guitarist in a wizard rock band in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

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GYeyg TIL of Archibald Hall who was a thief and serial killer active while working for the British aristocracy, stealing and killing several of his employers and fellow house staff. So yes, the butler did it.
x6XD0 TIL that MRI machines were originally called NMRI machines but they were forced to drop the first word - “Nuclear” - due to its negative connotations associated by the public.
wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.
OGAlY TIL the Republican party, as much as they decry deficits, are consistently worse about them
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