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TIL that Keanu Reeves doesn't physically touch female fans when taking photos

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GAP05 TIL that Owen Wilson was considered to play Micheal Scott in The Office
OoLWe Today I learned that in the 1880s, a young man named Larry Donovan attempted to make a living solely by jumping off high bridges. When he died at the age of 26, his mother was quoted in the newspaper saying: "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living."
kOeAg TIL property rights include the ground below your home, and in common law (except California its limited I think) they typically define it as "all the way to hell" as a way to demonstrate the depth you own.
Ox74 TIL Marlon Brando was in an acting class that was told to act like chickens and that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. When Stella Adler asked why he said, “I’m a chicken, What do I know about bombs?”
9kD TIL: In the three days after the Colorado theatre shooting, the number of people applying for background checks to purchase firearms in Colorado rose 43.5%