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TIL Keanu Reeves has donated more than $31 million for cancer research!

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eB0L TIL The Colombian army created a pop song with a Morse code beat to communicate with kidnapped military personnel
wX88 TIL that the rights to Peter Pan are owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital and that it is one of very few novels to have had its copyright extended due to the amount of funding it provides the hospital
9wybm TIL: Orcas live in matrilineal families
YB4x TIL that Graham Chapman from Monty Python asked John Cleese to say “fuck” at his memorial service, just so he would be the first to do so. Cleese also started his eulogy with excerpts from the “Dead Parrot Sketch”, and at the end all the Pythons sang “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life”.
pY15A TIL in 1920, the New York Times mocked Robert Goddard for believing rockets could fly in space. In 1926, he proved them wrong by launching the first liquid-fueled rocket. In 1969, NYT finally apologized—just before the Moon landing.