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TIL that Harry Potter books were translated from British to American English.

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xV7L5 TIL that there is a practice in China for reusing fatbergs from the sewers as cooking oil.
4np5 TIL Bonnie and Clyde were shot so many times that the undertaker had difficulty embalming the bodies because all of the fluid kept leaking out.
aw9WM TIL A theme park in France employ ravens to clear the park off cigarette butts in return for a reward (bird food).
e0jkb TIL that the RUSH song "Red Barchetta" was based on a Sci Fi story of a near future where drivers of large, heavy and very crash worthy modern cars would hunt drivers of older, more fragile conventional cars and crash into them for sport and drive away unscathed.
wLkw7 TIL: One of the world's biggest mysteries is a 19' granite monument sitting on one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, GA. The Georgia Guidestones are engraved in eight different languages and the first of ten guides or commandments etched in stone is: “1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000”