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TIL That Keanu Reeves deferred his salary for The Devil’s Advocate to ensure the budget could afford Al Pacino for his role in the movie. He did it again for The Replacements to get Gene Hackman.

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e05Vn TIL Secretariat has 263 US streets named after him - far more than any other athlete, human or otherwise.
x6lag TIL of Edward The Black Prince of England who would defeat the French at the Battle of Crecy aged 16, nine years later he would capture 50 French towns during a raid, when the French refused to meet him in battle.
4pYN TIL A paraglider was sucked into a storm for over 40 minutes, passed out and reached a height of 32,000ft - higher than Mount Everest.
xVKB7 TIL in June of 1996, Tupac went to prom with a fan who wrote him a letter jokingly saying “If you ever read this, please take me to my prom since my boyfriend just broke up with me.”
11N4 TIL there is a “Quiet Zone” in the United States where radio transmissions are restricted, and microwave ovens, wifi routers, and cell phones are prohibited.