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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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p8k5N TIL Ethiopia adopted Christianity in 330 AD, just 17 years after the Roman empire. Despite the rise of Islam, fall of the Byzantine Orthodox Church, and being cut off from all other Christians for centuries Ethiopia remained Christian. They remain the only majority Orthodox Christian African nation.
5vPP TIL: A South African doctor tried to create a virus that would only affect black people.
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OG8E6 TIL that Rio de Janeiro gets the same hours of sun per year as Seattle
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