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TIL Keanu Reeves almost changed his name to Chuck Spadina

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a8YOA TIL of RAS syndrome, the act of appending a word to the end of an abbreviated term that already exists at the tail of it. e.g. ATM (automated teller machine) machine, PIN (personal identification number) number and amusingly, RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
1aO9X TIL that Calvinist Christians believe that people can be saved of their inherently sinful nature, but they have no choice about it. God chooses who receives salvation before they're even born. Many Baptist, Presbyterian, and Church of Christ churches adhere to Calvinist doctrine.
YpV97 TIL that three quarters of the Ikea Catalog is CGI
0O1 TIL the first MP3, created in 1987 by Karlheinz Brandenburg, was Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner”. He chose it because the human voice is hardest to compress and believed Vega’s a capella was the perfect test.
4WnX TIL that “Highway Gothic” are a standard set of fonts specifically designed since 1948 to maximize legibility at distance and high speed, and are used on highway signs around the world.