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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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YNdG TIL By the time a person in the United States is 65 years old, he would have seen an estimated two million television commercials
YpJBW TIL Dartmouth (and a few other schools) makes all its students pass a swim test before the graduate, so that they won’t drown and waste their education.
P147V TIL in 1874, Mary Rafferty came to Dr. Roberts Bartholow at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati for a lesion. The lesion was diagnosed as cancerous and surgery was attempted. Bartholow saw her lesion as terminal so decided to experiment on her exposed brain. He was condemned by his peers for this.
wgOo TIL: When Apple was going public and assigning shares, Jobs cut out several employees. Wozniak then gave some of his personal shares to them, because he believed it was the right thing to do.
ADGPn TIL In 1963 there were only 417 bald eagles breeding pairs in the 48 states. They had been ravaged by the effects of the insecticide DDT. Today there are 72,000 individuals in the lower 48 states, and 143,000 including Alaska. They are the ultimate Endangered Species Act success story.