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TIL of the only person ever to return a Pulitzer Prize, journalist Janet Cooke, due to her fabricating a story of an 8-year-old heroin addict which triggered a city-wide search

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wLaxM TIL Keanu Reeves was offered the lead role in The Matrix after 5 leading actors in 1990s turned it down.
X0VMP TIL that "for every increase of 100 meters (in elevation), suicide rates rise by 0.4 per 100,000 people"
8a9rX TIL that there is an exclusive Antarctic group of scientists called the Club 300. To be a member, they would soak in a 200°F sauna, then run outside naked in -100°F temperatures. The goal is to experience a 300 degree temperature swing, and see how long they can run around the Ceremonial South Pole.
GY0jN TIL X-Men movie director Bryan Singer banned Comic Books on set because he worried that bringing comics on set might get in the way of the "three-dimensional characters" he was trying to portray on screen.
b6Qea TIL actor James Hayden received a standing ovation for his role as a drug addict in the Broadway play American Buffalo. Just 6 hours later, while on the phone with his estranged wife, he suddenly stopped speaking. Police were called and found him slumped over. He died of an apparent heroin overdose