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TIL Keanu Reeves got the role for Neo in The Matrix because Will Smith turned it down in order or shoot Wild Wild West

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nWpgG TIL In 1974, Richard built the world’s first 16-bit personal computer. Eric programmed the machine. A year later, Scott authored the first graphic video game for a personal computer.
JYA48 TIL that the first movie about the Titanic came out 29 days after the actual ship sank, starred a real life survivor who wore what she had on the night it sank in the production, and resulted in her suffering a mental breakdown shortly after its completion.
lKo1 TIL researchers trained flatworms, then decapitated them. After their heads grew back, researchers found they had retained their training.
mW7P TIL that Norway, Sweden, and Finland together are NOT Scandinavia, but are Fennoscandia; Scandinavia actually comprises Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, NOT Finland
VBYap TIL the Pan Am 747 destroyed in the worst aviation accident 45 years ago at Tenerife was coincidentally also the first 747 to make a commercial flight, the first 747 to be hijacked, was named Clipper Victor, and the Captain was Victor Grubbs