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TIL Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt, Van Kilmer declined the role of being “Neo” from The Matrix trilogy. When they declined, the studio pushed for Reeves, who won the role over Johnny Depp, the Wachowskis’ first choice.

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7QNp TIL: A man who molested a murdered a 10 year old girl named Kate, was held down by inmates and tattooed “Katie’s Revenge” on his forehead, when they found out about his crimes
4L06 TIL Mother’s Day was created to honor mothers who had passed away. And the woman who created Mother’s Day regretted what it had become.
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA
BbyL TIL that the Russians dropped booby-trapped toys on Afghanistan so that Afghan children without arms or legs wouldn’t be able to fight the Soviets in the future
kOny4 TIL Baikonur, Kazkhstan is the world’s first and also the largest space launch facility. The Baikonur Spaceport Museum has more than 13,000 various displays and space shuttles from the oldest to the most recent ones