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Today I Learned that Keanu Reeves played Neo in The Matrix.

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pY6kG TIL: The Maqlû is an ancient anti witchcraft Akkadian text. It is comprised of nearly 100 incantations that must be performed in one night to take the lives of evil sorcerers and witches. The ritual was mentioned in a letter from the exorcist Nabû-nādin-šumi to the Assyrian king Esarhaddon.
rMy0 TIL In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore offered a restaurant $1,000 to sell her a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2,000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
yydw TIL That a driver in Japan raced and outdrove a collapsing tunnel he was driving through, in his WRX RA.
OoDKX TIL that the people on house hunters already bought a house before the show and the rest is staged
x6yAw TIL there is a little known statistic in American football called an “octopus”. Players can record an octopus by scoring a touchdown, followed by scoring a 2-pt conversion after that same touchdown.