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TIL Keanu Reeves grew up with such showbiz connections that Alice Cooper was once his babysitter.

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e0gQn TIL 3 Florida men tried to steal honey from a hive of 20K - 30K bees in Pasco County; each man got about 50 stings from the honey bees. The men were hosed down by Fire Rescue & brought to the hospital. A neighbor reported that the men had been "covered in bees", but no honey was reported stolen.
78AGL TIL that most of the actors that portrayed the Jack Ryan character are all catholic of Irish descent, like the character. (Alec Baldwin (1990), Harrison Ford (1992–1994), John Krasinski)
jdQR TIL Even though he was teenager during the Great Depression of the 1930s, John F. Kennedy said in an interview with TIME that he “didn’t really learn about the depression until [he] read about it at Harvard.”
081A TIL that an Indonesian toddler Aldi Rizal has quit the habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day but has now got addicted to junk food. He started smoking when he was just 18 months old.
d8KNd TIL even though the half-life of LSD is only about 30 minutes, its hallucinogenic effects can last up to 18 hours because the molecule gets stuck at an angle within the brain's serotonin receptor and cannot dislodge itself.