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TIL Keanu Reeves donated all his earnings (> $35 mil) from The Matrix to his special effects team, it made all of them multi-millionaires.

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N7N4M TIL that a 6-ton night pearl worth 2.2 billion yuan (331 million US dollars) was discovered in Northern China's Inner Mongolia. It is mainly composed of a fluorite mineral and emits translucent crystal ray in the darkness.
bRMQ TIL that in the Marvel comics Santa Claus is actually the world’s most powerful mutant ever registered by the X-Men
9mRM TIL there is a mineral named Cummingtonite. Its chemical composition is (Mg,Fe2+)2(Mg,Fe2+)5Si8O22(OH)2. It was named after Cummington, Massachusetts, where it was discovered in 1824.
VMWm4 TIL even though smoking has been banned on airplanes, ash trays are mandatory on every plane. This is for safe disposal in case someone breaks the law.
7rl8P TIL The Gyrojet was a family of firearms that fired tiny rockets called Microjets. In theory the rockets accelerate over a distance making them non-fatal at close range and fatal at greater distances.