Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
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