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TIL that Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort were related: Tom Riddle's mother--Merope Gaunt--was a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin. Cadmus Peverell was her paternal ancestor. Harry Potter's paternal ancestor was Ignotus Peverell, which makes Voldermort and Harry distantly related.

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XExM6 TIL Luxembourg won the Eurovision Song contest five times with French-language songs. When they tried switching to Luxembourgish songs they hit the last spot and quickly switched back to French.
4XKL6 TIL Sleep deprivation has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But if you’re depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. This is the basis of Wake Therapy
e9ag TIL that a building burned down across the street from the Beach Boys’ studio right after they recorded the chaotic instrumental piece “The Elements: Fire”. Mentally unstable bandleader Brian Wilson was convinced for years the two were linked.
pY4W4 TIL that Rod Stewart confessed in his autobiography that he plagiarized part of the beat from his major hit song “do ya think im sexy?” from a Brazilian singer named Jorge Ben, calling it “unconscious plagiarism”
9wXyB TIL in 2015 Cheerios (labeled Gluten Free) were recalled, because they in fact contained gluten | "Many in the celiac disease community [had] gotten sick from the contaminated Cheerios"