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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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BgXvd TIL we may soon be able to talk to the animals
vLLB TIL the city of Cincinnati has a subway system that was built and never used.
QNZV9 TIL about Marina Abramović, a Serbian performance artist who, in 1974, created an art piece called Rhythm 0. In this piece, she placed 72 objects on a table that ranged from a feather, scissors and a gun with a single bullet. She then allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted for 6 hours.
4XYE6 TIL there are no known records from the American Treasury Department to indicate why Andrew Jackson was chosen to replace Grover Cleveland on the $20 bill in 1928. Jackson was notoriously opposed to paper money.
GM15 TIL Walt Disney’s original vision for EPCOT was to build a constantly transforming, livable, planned community devoted to the happiness of its residents and that would solve many of the ills of city life. He called it the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT for short.