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TIL Keanu Reeves once rescued a pre-fame Octavia Spencer after she was stranded on the roadside

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W70E9 TIL a 1-kilometer cube cumulous cloud would weigh about 1.1 million pounds.
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x60oD TIL there is a disease called Maple Syrup Urine Disease, an inhereted genetic disorder which causes your urine to smell like maple syrup within 48 hours of child birth, that when untreated leads to metabolic crisis (comas, seizures, spasms) eventually causing death.
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kEZ4 TIL that 3 people tried to sell Coca Cola’s secret ingredient to Pepsi, but Pepsi reported them to Coca Cola and the FBI