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TIL Stephen King wrote a handwritten review for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in which he said Dolores Umbridge was the best fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter.

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oR4mo TIL music therapy can be used to help combat depression and heal trauma, and listening to music has been shown to reduce heart rate, lower blood pressure and decrease stress levels
wLbl8 TIL of Ignác Trebitsch, an Orthodox Jew con artist who spent time as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British MP, German double-agent, Nazi collaborator, and Buddhist abbot.
GO9g TIL while prostitution is legal in Queensland Australia, advertising said services by skywriting is not.
4oDX TIL that in 1996, Howard Stern completely took over the Tonight Show in a raunchy fashion. Jay Leno was so offended, he stormed out of the studio on a commercial break, while shouting expletives. At the end of the show, he walked off and refused to shake Howard’s hand.
6Elpl TIL elephants rarely get cancer, thanks to an extra cancer-fighting gene called P53. This gene recognizes dangerous cells and killing them before they become cancerous.