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TIL Keanu Reeves has never won an Oscar, Golden Globe, or Emmy award of any kind. In fact, he has never even been nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, or Emmy.

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Wow9 TIL Yogi Bear as well as many other Hanna-Barbera cartoons, were given white collars so the Animators would have to draw less. Redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke.
d8alK TIL that reparations were given to some 40,000 former African American slaves who were settled on 400,000 acres (1,600 km²). HOWEVER, President Andrew Johnson returned the land to the previous owners when Lincoln was assassinated and Johnson became president.
b9ggp TIL that flint and steel causes a spark because when the steel is struck against a hard object, such as flint, tiny shards of iron come off the steel and immediately oxidize, resulting in sparks.
rNerM TIL about mummering, an old English/Irish tradition where people disguise themselves during Christmas to visit family and friends
8Web TIL: when the spanish landed on the Yucatan Peninsula, they asked “where are we?”, to which the indigenous population responded “Yucatan”, meaning “I don’t understand what he just said”