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TIL that Amy Poehler started a website to encourage girls to change the world by being themselves

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EpAX TIL that Disney’s oldest continuing character is not Mickey Mouse – it’s Pete, best known for being Goofy’s neighbor in Goof Troop.
p8eJb TIL the training for the original The Matrix movie was so intense Hugo Weaving (Smith) needed hip surgery and Keanu Reeves (Neo) suffered a two-level fusion of his cervical spine which had begun to cause paralysis in his legs, requiring him to undergo neck surgery.
LQ5KP Today I learned psychologists actually took a 12 year old paralyzed kid from his parents and dropped him into a deep swimming pool because they thought he was faking his illness (M.E).
W7rAd TIL that in 2014, the comedian Tracy Morgan was involved in a car collision with a Walmart trailer, killing his accompanying friend, and leaving Morgan with a broken femur and nose, brain injury, and broken ribs. He sued Walmart for negligence, and the company settled the lawsuit for $90 million.
Roya TIL That English musician David Bowie does not have any recollection of creating his critically acclaimed album,“ Station to Station.” This is because he was in a psychotic state of terror, fueled by an “astronomical” cocaine habit.