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TIL 2024 is a Tetrahedral (or Triangular Pyramidal) Number

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5pb9 TIL. Keanu Reeves turned down a $10 million offer for the main role in Speed 2, in favor of touring with his band and playing Hamlet in a theater production
16Wlr TIL that we have been shaking hands since at least 900 BCE.
loraA TIL that an aged Teddy Roosevelt promised to die in battle if political rival President Woodrow Wilson would allow him to create a Rough Riders unit for WWI. “I told Wilson that I would die on the field of battle, that I would never return if only he would let me go!”
x6b50 TIL that the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element almost went to Prince rather than Chris Tucker.
yQD4e TIL that the reason cold water after mint gum makes your mouth colder because the menthol in gum is a cooling agent.