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TIL 30 years ago, Keanu Reeves turned down a $6M offer to star in the movie Heat to perform Hamlet on stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba for $1000 a week

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d8ylQ TIL that Ozzy Osbourne was bullied by Black Sabbath’s guitarist Tony Iommi in school , and he was only invited into the band after band mate Geezer Butler saw Ozzy advertising in a music shop that he had a P.A.
bVpp TIL that Sir Archy, one of the first great American race horses, retired because “there were no opponents willing to race against him.” His offspring were also so successful that they were effectively banned.
OGA4g TIL the first scanned UPC was a pack of Juicy Fruit gum on June 26th, 1974.
rEDx TIL that in 1946, a four year old Australian boy was flown to San Francisco to receive cancer treatment. Instead, he got caught in a Manhattan Project experiment and was injected with plutonium. He died one year later.
Mv5B TIL the US Navy’s most secretive naval base is located in a remote lake in northern Idaho. This base is believed to be used to develop stealth submarine technology and some locals believe that there is an underground waterway to the Pacific ocean used for top secret deployment