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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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8exGZ TIL an Afghan immigrant invented and sold the process for Minute Rice to General Mills.
QNEG9 TIL a survey in 2021 found 36% of all Americans- including 61% of young adults and 51% of mothers with young children - feel “serious loneliness.” Loneliness has increased substantially since the outbreak of the global pandemic.
woNno TIL the drug protamine, which is an antidote for heparin, comes from salmon sperm.
logEa TIL Lord Voldemort’s costume had 7 shades of green for each of his 7 horcruxes. Every time one was destroyed, his cloak lost a shade and faded in color to give the impression he was “fading away”
oY0E TIL that during the Normandy Allied Invasion Bill Millin, a Scottish Piper, played his bagpipes as he walked the beach while the carnage erupted around him. He later asked captured German prisoners why they hadn’t shot at him. They said they thought he was on a suicide mission and was clearly mad.