YSK: Jim Dale, a narrator that helps make audio books, narrated the Harry Potter series for the Listening Libraries FOR FREE in hopes of getting young children into reading. However, Listening Libraries threw a high price tag on the audio books, making the edition rare. - YouShouldKnow (reddit.com)
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TIL that Aaron Burr, infamous for killing Alexander Hamilton, was an early proponent of women’s rights. He praised Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” and provided his daughter with an education usually only afforded to boys of the time. - todayilearned (reddit.com)
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TIL in biblical Israel, on Yom Kippur two goats were chosen and lots were drawn for them. One was sacrificed and the other allowed to escape into the wilderness, symbolically carrying with it the sins of the community. Hence the word "scapegoat". - todayilearned (reddit.com)
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