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TIL Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter on 9/11.

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loK7r TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.
1abBD TIL that a man faked being an internationally renowned heavy metal artist and tricked clubs all over the world into booking his shows
5VyZP TIL Keanu Reeves was only offered the role of "Neo" in The Matrix after six leading actors turned it down including Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer and Sandra Bullock
x6mD7 TIL in 2023 a woman discovered a construction company in Hawaii had erroneously built a $500,000 house on her empty lot because they failed to conduct a survey before breaking ground. She wanted the house removed. The contractor and the developer sued her in return.
wAKM TIL German footballer Mesut Özil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil