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TIL that a family bought a chinese bowl for 2 dollars only to find out it being worth 2.2 million dollars

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e0AXL TIL 'The Matrix' Wanted Sandra Bullock as 'Neo' before Keanu Reeves took the role. The producers had such a hard time finding the right man for the role that they briefly considered changing Neo into a female character. She was also considered for the part of Trinity and regretted not taking it.
Z8yaR TIL that Adam Sandler won BOTH Worst Actor and Worst Actress at the 2011 Razzie Awards for Jack and Jill
x6Vrk TIL of the "royal touch", a medieval practice wherein monarchs touched one of their subjects suffering from an illness, thereby supposedly curing them of said illness
nO7P TIL there was a Mayan God of homosexuality and male prostitutes
8aGrZ TIL in 1944, 22-year-old Corporal Anthony Damato threw himself on an enemy hand grenade, saving the lives of his two Marines at the cost of his own life. President Roosevelt later awarded him the Medal of Honor calling it a "fearless and valiant sacrifice reflecting great upon himself and the US".