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TIL: Keanu Reeves is a classically trained ballroom dancer.

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gVJy TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
E1rpV TIL about Project 100,000. A controversial Vietnam War era program by the US DoD to draft 100,000 low-IQ men a year for the Vietnam War. Dubbed, “Macnamara’s Morons” more than 5,000 were killed in the war, 3x the rate when compared to other soldiers.
En6d TIL that, because of the horrible live-action version of Cat In the Hat, Dr. Seuss’s estate demanded that there can no longer be any live-action Dr. Seuss movies.
rNyPw TIL about Montagu Porch, a British officer who became Winston Churchill's stepfather despite being 3 years younger than him