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TIL Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve

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6ElxY TIL popular actor and celebrity Keanu Reeves donated over $75 million dollars to 14 different charities, as well as his autographed Talent Pass from the 2006 MTV Movie Awards.
kJLMg TIL Michael Jordan told director Ben Affleck that Viola Davis "has to" play his mom in Affleck's film Air. Casting Davis in a film was a lifelong career ambition for Affleck. When she said yes, he concluded that "a lot of it had to do with me being like, 'Michael Jordan wants you to play his mom.'”
rNeXd TIL about the “Starving Time” in the colony of Jamestown, a devastating winter which caused all but 61 of the original 500 colonists to starve to death, with several people resorting to cannibalism.
VMpyD TIL of the Hedonic Treadmill: after tragedy or good fortune, you will adapt toward okay-ness.
VBpo4 TIL that a moment was actually a medieval unit of time lasting about 90 seconds