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TIL That Venus Flytraps are native to North Carolina

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epR4L TIL that the United States has had at least one Nobel prize winner every year since 1936
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p8DPe TIL that many elements of Harry Potter are very similar to a book written 3 years before. The Secret of Platform 13 features a boy of magical lineage who lives with in an abusive house with a spoilt other child, and you get to the magical world through a platform at King's Cross.
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