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TIL That Albus Dumbledore's Chair From The Harry Potter Films Was The Inspired By The Coronation Chair AKA King Edward's Chair.

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KO98Q TIL of the cult of Osiris. In the centuries before Jesus, an Egyptian cult emerged around a dying and rising god-made-mortal whose followers were baptized in order to redeem their sins.
eZb4 TIL Stephen Colbert exists in the Marvel Universe. He ran for president and he helped Spider-Man defeat a villain
epB46 TIL about Senator William Alden “Watertight Smith”, who chaired the US investigations into The sinking of the Titanic and infamously asked why passengers could not shelter in watertight compartments.
8aKgb TIL Quarantine is from Italian 'quaranta giorni', meaning "forty days", used in 14th-15th-century Venetian dialect and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic
Y79Bv TIL this year (2025) will be the only perfect square year of my lifetime