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TIL Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) appeared in a virtual graduation message for the 2020 graduates of San Dimas High School. Some quotes from the message included: "San Dimas High School football does rule", "be excellent to each other", "And party on".

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QJbdX TIL that For the first time, all 5,000 objects found inside king Tutankhamun’s tomb will be displayed together in the world’s largest archeological museum dedicated to a single civilisation: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt, in the next year (2021).
KYOMQ TIL that in 1965, Norman Morrison, a Quaker Pacifist dosed himself in kerosene and committed self-immolation in front of the Pentagon to protest the US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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