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TIL the Airbus 340 is the only airline passenger jet with no accidents

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WJ5B TIL Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
EG9x TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman guest starred in an episode of kid’s cartoon ‘Arthur’, playing a famous theater director called William Fillmore Toffman.
VMolZ TIL Steve Jobs hired a new CEO for Apple, John Sculley, who fired him later. He started a new company NeXT, which was later acquired by Apple itself, and eventually Jobs became CEO again, driving Apple to its greatest success. He calls being fired "the best thing that ever happened to him".
x60dg TIL that despite being advised by his professor not to pursue physics because “almost everything is already discovered,” Max Planck went on to develop quantum theory and win the Nobel Prize
J1Jd8 TIL Germany’s Goettingen State University Library seeks to house everything printed in 70 Siberian and Arctic languages. In Siberia there are nearly zero publications in these languages because so many of the minority languages are nearly dead