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TIL Keanu Reeves, frequently cited as having the worst English accent in film history, is half English and his mother is from Essex.

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MQQb TIL: PSY sang an anti-American song in 2004 advocating killing American’s daughters/mothers/fathers/etc. painfully. (S.Koreans should be able to confirm this)
eAr5 TIL that Michelangelo actually intended his famous David statue to be viewed from what we consider to be the side. It presents David as a much more menacing figure, facing down Goliath. Part of the genius of the sculpture is that viewing it from the side suddenly lets you see him as a gentler figure
Z8Qo4 TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
OooBe TIL Johnny Depp is suing his money managers due to the fact that they are not legally required to do whats best for him
d8o4r TIL by using a man in the middle, two brothers hacked the French optical telegraph system to gain advance information on the stock market. When they got caught two years later, they walked away as free men because in 1836 there were no laws against hacking