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TIL Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

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jjMv TIL the best paid sportsman of all-time was the Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Before retiring in 146 AD, Diocles had won 1,462 races, resulting in winning over 35,863,120 sesterces in prize-money. By today’s standards, that last figure would cash out to about $15 billion.
MZEb TIL the Elephant Man was unable to sleep lying down for his whole life and finally experimented, leading to his death. It was claimed that his death was due to the desire that had dominated his life—the pathetic but hopeless desire to be ‘like other people’
4PpJ TIL that in 2000 Nestlé chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stated that “access to water should not be a public right.” While that statement was recanted, Nestlé continues to take control of aquifers and bottle their water for profit.
G4jN TIL the overthrow of the monarchy in Brazil was such a minor affair that even the few people who did witness it did not realize they just saw a revolution.
p8Y74 TIL the Chinese Government controls the central heating for every home in Beijing