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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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gMyGW TIL of the Circle of Tchaikovsky, a group formed in 1868 to share knowledge and books that were banned in the Russian Empire, which included the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx. However, the circle opposed violent revolutions and believed fighting for political freedom was pointless.
XkE TIL there are seven naked ladies on the poster of Silence of the Lambs
xdmg TIL the Age of Empires game for the Nintendo DS could be bricked/destroyed completely if the name of the save file was less than 4 characters long. The developers later had to print a slip into future cartridges warning players since the glitch could not be repaired, only worked around.
4k0oR TIL the name "Chilean seabass" was invented by a fish wholesaler named Lee Lantz in 1977. He was looking for a name to make the Patagonian toothfish attractive to the American market. In 1994, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted "Chilean seabass" as an "alternative market name" for it.
LQe69 TIL Ars Amatoria, the most famous work by roman poet Ovid, is just dating advice in the form of a poem. It was written in 2 AD and contains advice such as "never forget her birthday", "let her miss you but not too much" and "never ask her age". He also wrote a sequel with dating advice for women