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TIL that Keanu Reeves was offered a tryout by the Baltimore Ravens during the shooting of his film 'The Replacements'.

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dDpyK TIL that antidisestablishmentarianism, famous for being one of the longest words in the English language, is the belief that the government should continue recognizing an official state church.
oBNVA TIL that Trey Parker and Matt Stone lost the Oscar for Best Song to Phil Collins in 1999. As a result they brutally satirized him in the episode “Timmy 2000.” They have him sing a parody of “You’ll Be In My Heart,” get booed off stage, and then had his Oscar shoved up his ass.
v1oeD TIL about Sir Upendranath Brahmachari, who saved millions of lives by developing a cure for Kala-Azar in 1920's. He was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in medicine but is not recognized by the government and the people
4X5wX TIL the Adoration Of The Magi is an unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci commissioned by a Florentine monastery in 1480. Consistent with his proneness to abandon projects, he eventually grew bored with it, simply left, and moved to Milan. The monastery paid Filippino Lippi to complete it instead.
ZpdE4 TIL many medical experts have cited Memento (2000) as featuring one of the most realistic & accurate depictions of anterograde amnesia. And in 2017, it became the first narrative feature film from the 2000s to be selected by the US Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.