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TIL that “shuttlecock calibrator” is a real job

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78g9X TIL the Harry Potter series is the best-selling book series of all-time with 600 million copies sold globally between the seven books.
R5aL8 TIL that house centipedes pray on many household pests. Cockroaches being a preferred prey.
WBeN TIL the pages of what became Catcher in the Rye were carried by author J.D. Salinger as he stormed the beach at Normandy on D-Day, through the streets of Paris, and into liberated concentration camps. The story was shaped by his experiences.
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