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TIL Keanu Reeves was tricked into making a movie because a friend forged his signature and Reeves didn’t want to fight the legal battle

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Zp4kB Today I learned Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 by two men. The original book was written as “The Story of How More Than 100 Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism.” Today there are over two million members worldwide.
oRea8 TIL when an individual suffered a cardiac arrest in a rural Minnesotan grocery store, roughly 20 bystanders stood up and performed CPR continuously for over ninety minutes until emergency medical services arrived - remarkably, the individual survived.
QRRE TIL Ben Folds showed up to a jury recital at University of Miami’s music school with a broken hand from defending his roommate from bullies the night before, but was required to play anyway. He ended up losing his scholarship and in desperation threw his drum kit into his campus’ lake.
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9YJ4m TIL About the "Great Cat Massacre" In 17th century Paris a group of apprentices, angered that they were treated worse than cats, imitated the felines screeching all night. The master ordered the noisy cats killed. The apprentices held a trial, convicted the cats of witchcraft, and hung them.