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TIL that Keanu Reeves came to the aid of Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer when she first moved to LA and was stranded on the side of the road

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rR4Ow TIL Cyril of Alexandria claimed that “camel” is a Greek misspelling in the phrase “it’s easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven.” He claimed camel was actually “kamilos,” meaning rope.
p8neO TIL Bats cannot take off from the ground. So if you find one that is on the ground gently pick it up with a shovel or something like that a let it crawl up on a tree.
x68k7 TIL the plane which dropped the atomic bomb in WW2, the B-29 Superfortress, was more expensive to develop ($3 billion) than the Manhattan Project ($1.9 billion).
BrYjW TIL turtles that wander on to roads occasionally get launched into traffic after being struck by a vehicle and are able to survive the impact of being sent through a windshield.
nelNP TIL about Ashpan Annie, who survived catastrophic explosion in Halifax, Canada in 1917 as a baby, protected from the explosion by an iron stove and kept warm for over 24 hours by the ashes. Annie lived to be 95.