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TIL Keanu Reeves almost changed his name to Chuck Spadina

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b6WBZ TIL Ceaser salad was named after Ceaser Cardini and not Julius Ceaser…
lADr TIL that in 1847 the wife of Mountain Man John Johnson was killed by a group of Crow Indians which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers to avenge the death of his wife.
woO6 TIL a mentally imbalanced man named Joshua Norton in the mid-1800’s declared himself “Emperor of the United States.” The people of his town were so amused that they respected his authority, doing things like actually taking the fake money that the “Emporer” issued in his own name.
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