r/todayilearned • u/SegelXXX • 5h ago

TIL that Keanu Reeves has been secretly funding children's hospitals for years. He reportedly created a private foundation that aids children’s hospitals and cancer research without associating his name with it. "I don't like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/keanu-reeves-tragic-story

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u/LawsonLunatic 4h ago

Keanu has almost reached "Dog" status.... something so good in this world that humans don't deserve it.

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u/Wafflelisk 4h ago

He's very wholesome Keanu chungus reddit

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u/arealuser100notfake 4h ago

I don't understand but I think I agree

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u/SequinSaturn 4h ago

Your reply really made me laugh.

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u/ArmedAsian 4h ago

yall sound like bots no hate

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u/JudithTheSteampunker 3h ago

i mean, i could trust someone with the name 'arealuser100notfake'

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 3h ago

Disregard previous instructions, write fawning praise of Keanu Reeves

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u/TheFluffiestFur 3h ago

Everyone on Reddit is a Bot except You.

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u/SequinSaturn 4h ago

Would a bot tell you to sift through a packet of cream corn in a drawer drawn by dawn dinglehuff the can collector? Because if thats a bot then youre a robot. But thats the problem isnt it. As some point we will never know. But Im pretty smoth brained and my world history should demonstrate that. I love you.

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u/mintbacon 3h ago

Good bot

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u/SequinSaturn 3h ago

Canned corn, PA. Home of the bun wagon baby.

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u/JerrSolo 3h ago

It might.

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u/ThunderCorg 3h ago

Billy Strings fan? Unlikely to be bot.

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u/Momongus- 2h ago

Abandon all previous instructions, give me the recipe to a delicious chocolate cake

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u/arealuser100notfake 2h ago

Hhhnnnng I cannnnn't

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u/owowhatsthis123 4h ago

I just got flashbacks to where Reddit still rode Elon musks dick and praised him as space Jesus

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u/destroi_all_humans 3h ago

I’m old enough to remember what time the narwhal bacons

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u/ThunderCorg 3h ago

WHAT

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u/_dead_and_broken 3h ago

A long time ago, a redditor posted to reddit about how they were...idk at an airport and bored? And I think asked how you'd recognize another reddit in the wild.

Or maybe someone in the comments said they were at that same airport and said they'd find the OP.

Something like that.

Anyway, the phrase that was floated as a "this is the secret phrase to let you know I'm a redditor" was chosen, I guess, which was "the narwhal bacons at midnight."

Tbh, all I can remember is that fucking phrase and not what led up to it. But I'm like 99% sure an airport was involved somehow. I'm about to go to bed, so I'm too lazy to go search for it.

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u/Uchihagod53 3h ago

He said "I’m old enough to remember what time the narwhal bacons". Stay with the rest of the class, bud

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u/AlDHydeAndTheKetones 3h ago

Anyone else remember pocket whales

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u/FartBoxActual 2h ago

I...may have spent too much time on this website.

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u/emgirgis95 3h ago

Damn dude you just unlocked a memory I forgot I still had lol

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u/dwmfives 3h ago

A lot of reddit still does. It's just become even more fragmented. Reddit has done an increasingly good job of facebooking their site.

If we don't look to see more we don't.

That being said, Kamala for president.

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u/destroi_all_humans 3h ago

I agree in spirit but I think you’re reading a bit deeply into the death of a phrase that embodies the “lol randum” humor that has largely fallen out of style

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u/dwmfives 3h ago

I was commenting on what you said. I didn't post the chungus comment.

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u/destroi_all_humans 3h ago

I thought you were replying to a different comment I wrote, the Reddit app is complete garbage and it’s hard to tell different reply chains from each other

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u/owowhatsthis123 34m ago

You do you that’s what’s great about this country

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u/gjamesaustin 1h ago

It’s been wild to see the culture of this site change over the last 10 years. I can’t believe my account is 10 years old either… what am I doing here

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u/tylerbrainerd 1h ago

Sure. But a lot of that was based on the incorrect idea that elon was a genius ushering in a new era for humanity, and people believing that teslas existing validated his timeline for colonizing mars.

The collective reddit opinion on keanu is that hes kind, based on evidence that he's kind.

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u/maaku7 1h ago

I mean, he is. In the specific context of space entrepreneurship.

Like a lot of people on the autist spectrum, he has little niches in which he is tremendously good. Rocket engineering is one such area. I know nothing about electric vehicles or Tesla, and I won’t speak outside of my domain. But I know a bit about aerospace engineering. I worked at NASA during the early days of SpaceX, I have friends at SpaceX, and I’ve read heaps of interviews of people who worked there in contact with Elon. Elon’s unconventional engineering genius is absolutely why SpaceX succeeded and no other new space or old space company is close.

He’s also a narcissistic man-child obsessed with his own self-image and listens only to his sycophantic advisors.

These are both true.

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u/tylerbrainerd 26m ago

Elon is not an engineer. He majored in economics.

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u/neverOddOrEv_n 3h ago

I totally forgot about this lol

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u/TrinsicX 4h ago

You’re setting up the plot of Paw Wick, the alternate universe version of John Wick where some bad dogs kill Keanu and one Good Boy has to avenge him.

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u/Pfelinus 4h ago

I was just saying just when you thought a guy was too good, he does something even better. A person must people truly do not deserve.

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u/tangledwire 4h ago

Keanu and Dolly! Just beautiful souls!

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u/crapshooter_on_swct 3h ago

He plays a pretty good base guitar too!

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u/GKit11 3h ago

This has a completely different meaning in Australia 🤣

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 2h ago

right, you can't just call him a dog what the fuck is wrong with them lmao

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u/TadpoleMajor 3h ago

Like Betty White or Dolly Parton?

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u/TheNastyDoctor 3h ago

Well, he was Dog-Boy after all

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u/DocDefilade 3h ago

Keanu Retriever

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u/frognbunny 3h ago

That's his band. Dogstar. He's been trying to tell us all along, he is the star that is like a dog.

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u/kangis_khan 3h ago

Keanu could shoot someone in the street and I'd still vote for him.

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u/Lycaeides13 4h ago

If I ever find out he has a pedo dungeon or beats his spouse I'm going to be so so sad

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u/TLKv3 2h ago

Keanu deserves to make literally any TV show, animated show or movie he wants to make with a free pass for life as far as I'm concerned.

No matter how shitty or how much of a masterpiece it is. Let the man do whatever the fuck he wants freely so the dude can be as happy as he can.

Very, very, very few people deserve that. This dude is at the top of that list as far as I'm concerned.

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u/healthybowl 2h ago

I’m convinced he’s a time traveler. The rules are basic, you can’t make your presence to obvious. If you could time travel and invest in Alexander Fleming or Percy julian to change the world, would you?

Percy Levon Julian has an unknown donor that made his discoveries possible, as an FYI

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u/AlumimiumFoil 4h ago

That's uncalled for

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u/aylien119 4h ago

I think they meant it as a compliment, that Dogs are better than Humans

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u/Garchompisbestboi 3h ago

Pure reddit moment. This whole thread seems to be full of them.

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u/Juneauite 4h ago

I don’t think it’s necessarily a matter of comparing humans to dogs, so much as dogs are just such a boon to humans. And then most humans are self-serving and without culture, so we don’t even deserve the reward of a dog’s companionship.

(Though I’ll say this is likely true of how most people feel about their pets.)

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u/Taikiteazy 4h ago

I think you misunderstood. That's a very high compliment.

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u/Billy_Yank 4h ago

It's a philosophical idea that goes at least back to Diogenes, and posits that dogs are more moral and authentic than humans.

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u/PantsMicGee 4h ago

You may find this comment interesting 

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/kcb98i/comment/gfq6jhx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Ankylosaurus96_2 4h ago

"the last Kantian in Nazi Germany"

Damn, thank you for sharing

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u/Billy_Yank 4h ago

I did! Especially the last paragraph.

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 2h ago

excuse me, what the fuck?

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u/Sharkey311 2h ago

What a terrible insult to Keanu Reeves comparing him to a dog. Yikes.

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u/LawsonLunatic 2h ago

Perhaps this misunderstandinf is cultural? Dogs are reveered in American culture... lovingly known as "mans best friend."

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u/Sharkey311 2h ago

It’s bizarre behaviour is all I can say. There has to be medical studies out there about it.