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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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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In Finland, Valentine's Day is called "Ystävänpäivä" which translates into "Friend's day".
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You can start a fire with ice.
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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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