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TIL that research on the Harry Potter book series found that it helps reduce readers’ prejudice toward minority groups.

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6E5BJ TIL that in South Korea, only visually impaired people can be licensed masseurs, dating back over 100 years to a Japanese colonial law that was set up to guarantee the blind a livelihood.
XAA6 TIL Stanley Kubrick used lenses commissioned by NASA for the Apollo moon landings while filming his Victorian masterpiece, Barry Lyndon, allowing him to capture scenes lit only by candlelight.
BW7e TIL earlier this year, Star Wars was translated into Navajo, becoming the first major motion picture to be translated into any Native American language.
VBLOD TIL 50 years ago, a modified prototype of the Concorde supersonic jet was used to follow a solar eclipse for 74 minutes, a record that still stands today.
m18ZE TIL about Spiro Mounds, a pre-European North American city where so much well preserved treasure was found it was called "an American King Tut's Tomb" It was bought by a mining company for $100, looted, mined, and blown up by dynamite.