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TIL Keanu Reeves gave $80 million of his $114 million Matrix salary to special effects and makeup staff.

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VM1bk TIL that the first TV show that Michael J. Fox was in was Leo and Me. Four members of the cast and crew later caught Parkinson’s Disease causing some to suggest that there was an environmental factor.
kP0B TIL that General Tso’s chicken is not even a Chinese dish and that the name actually means “ancestral meeting hall chicken.”
DQD1g TIL that due to airflow, all single rotor helicopters have the same speed limit 250 mph (402 km/h)
Med67 TIL Lafayette, from the American and French Revolution, was born Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Montier de La Fayette. He joked, "It's not my fault. I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me protection in battle."