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TIL in 1890, the British used ancient Egyptian mummified cats as ..fertilizers

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Z8M6p TIL that when recording the audio book for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Stephen Fry could not say the phrase "he pocketed it" correctly, and he asked JK Rowling to replace it. She refused, and the phrase appears in each of the following 4 books.
5VY7k TIL a British sperm donor has fathered over 800 children.
X0APP TIL hippos, the same species that now lives in Africa, used to be found in England (130-115k years ago)
1a1aV TIL Guitar amps can pick up radio signals without special equipment
0wbQM TIL that Huey Lewis got a perfect 800 on his math SAT