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TIL that in 2008, the waiting list to get tickets to the UK’s hit show ‘Top Gear’ was 21 years

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p8eJb TIL the training for the original The Matrix movie was so intense Hugo Weaving (Smith) needed hip surgery and Keanu Reeves (Neo) suffered a two-level fusion of his cervical spine which had begun to cause paralysis in his legs, requiring him to undergo neck surgery.
P8pO TIL Karl Marx believed capitalism had the best chance of saving the world (but worried it was vulnerable to being overtaken by corporate fascism) which is why he wrote about it so much.
R5Ly7 TIL That Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have colonoscopy parties together
W8rY TIL Gardiners Island in New York is one of the United States’ largest private islands, has been owned by the Gardiner family for almost 400 years, and was granted to them by the King of England. It also has New York State’s oldest building on it, built in 1639.
6LOY TIL Will Smith’s shortened first name does not stand for William. It’s Willard Caroll Smith, Jr. In addition, he has a 22 year old son also named Willard (III). Except Willard III goes by “Trey”