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TIL during the shooting of ”Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” Keanu Reeves asked George Carlin for an autograph. Carlin simply wrote ”Dear Keanu, f*ck you”

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WkAyA TIL in the Ainu community (Japan's indigenous people), when a man proposed to a woman, he visited her house, ate half a full bowl of rice handed to him by her, and returned the rest. If the woman ate the rest, she accepted his proposal. If she did not and put it beside her, she rejected his proposal
N7vVQ TIL the oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in English is from a 1310 record by the court in Chester on outlawing a Roger Fuckbythenavel
xVlvw TIL that in the years following the Kennedy assassination, when she found herself in need of money, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother would go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph to tourists.
jNMRM TIL that John F. Kennedy, 2 months before his presidency, was almost assassinated by someone driving a dynamite-lading car into his. This was prevented because the assassin saw his wife and kids bid goodbye to Kennedy, thus changing his mind.
W7OKo TIL that the recipe "Engagement chicken" got its name after Kathy Suder and later several of her co-workers received engagement proposals after serving it to their boyfriends.