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TIL: Keanu Reeves is a classically trained ballroom dancer.

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a8GML TIL with a radius between 640 and 764 times that of the Sun, the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse (the tenth-brightest star in the night), if it were at the centre of our Solar System, would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
neEEW TIL The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.
OWEX TIL the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is powered by solar energy
MemwA TIL: The 101st Airborne was nicknamed "The Chicken Men" by the NVA and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War because the Eagle insignia looks like a Chicken. North Vietnamese commander was warned to not fight with the "The Chicken Men", because you will surely lose the battle.
0wby TIL that Milton Hershey continued to hire new employees during the Great Depression