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TIL of Variety Children's Charity. It was founded by a group of men in show business who found a baby on the steps of a movie theater. After raising money for her they raised money for poor kids. Later on two members founded The Jimmy Fund a pediatric cancer charity that fundraised in movie theaters

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loJma TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
LkG4P TIL that the name Big Ben properly refers only to the bell inside the clock tower, and not the tower itself nor the clock.
4XMWX TIL that Lon Chaney's makeup for The Hunchback of Notre Dame caused him permanent pain and vision loss.
gM0PA TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.
0M6j TIL “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” is not a quote from Voltaire. It comes from Kevin Alfred Strom, a white supremacist and convicted pedophile.