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TIL the game "Exploding Snap" was originally mistranslated as "Exploding Snape" in the German version of Harry Potter, leaving fans to wonder if Harry and his friends were conjuring tiny Snapes they could blow-up for fun

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9wyeG TIL that the Torino scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. YR4 was rated as a 3 on the Torino scale, with a 1-in-42 (2.4%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032.
LEyQ TIL that autotune was originally developed by Exxon as a method of interpreting seismic data.
lwdG TIL: Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film (Stranger Than Paradise) earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money
RLo4 TIL there was a thoroughbred racehorse with a series of significant wins in the late eighteenth century named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os.
4kgOg TIL There is an unsanctioned “art museum” that Astronauts on Apollo twelve snuck onto the moon.