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TIL Lawrence Fishburne, aka Morpheus from The Matrix, played a purple chaps-wearing cowboy on Pee-wees Playhouse

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R7Ayw TIL Africa is reputed to be the most complex multilingual part of the world with over 2,086 indigenous languages. Consequently, most adult Africans are multilingual in their mother tongue, another indigenous and/or a widely spoken African language, and the language of their former colonizer
jN1oX TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead
vnQR TIL Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock’s capture. There was no way out and anyone who died within the chamber would have to be embalmed and cemented into the floor.
gZ74 TIL Keith Richards, after being caught with an ounce of heroin and five grams of cocaine in canada, abandoned by his band and facing life in prison for drug trafficking, found himself alone in the studio the night before his court date, and recorded his first 5 songs ever has a solo artist.
jNNAa TIL that Russel Harvard - the actor who plays the hitman Mr. Wrench in Fargo - is actually deaf, and helped the directors and costar Adam Goldberg coordinate the scenes involving ASL