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TIL Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.

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W7xk4 TIL of the Church War of Jonesboro, a bloody feud in early 1930s Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Things got out of hand so bad, the Arkansas National Guard had to be called in.
8aMlV TIL extermination camp Treblinka II was disguised as a transit camp for deportations further east, complete with made-up train schedules, a fake train-station clock with hands painted on it, names of destinations and a fake ticket window.
kwv1 TIL there was a street artist in Brazil, that painted skulls in Sao Paolo tunnels with stencils and a pressure washer, forcing the city to clean the tunnels to remove the artwork.
AN5mw TIL of Helen Viola Jackson, the last Civil War widow, who died only in 2020, aged 101 - Born on August 3rd, 1919, she married 93 year old James Bolin, a Union soldier, at just 17 in 1936, with an age different of 76 years. Her husband died just 3 years later, in 1939.
neyno TIL the numbers (1-10) that we use every single day were actually made by Indians and spread by Arabs who found it very easy to use and adopted it into mathematics and is actually called Arabic numerals, because Europeans discovered it via the Arabs during the 6th century. Is this common knowledge?