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TIL that "Double Trouble" from Harry Potter is written using lines from Macbeth

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dDVwj TIL the link between creative genius and mental illness. That highly creative artists have temperaments more akin to manic depressives than to the general public
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4aVg TIL sexual intercourse produces five times more hormones than that of masturbation.
d80eQ TIL about Operation Rocky Top, which was a FBI mission that discovered corruption in the Tennessee State government. With the help of a first-year state representative, the FBI had arrested 50 people including state officials, which led to two state officials committing suicide to avoid trial.
8bLG TIL Dolphins seem to use toxic pufferfish to get high.