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TIL that Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick movies, was Keanu Reeve's stunt double in the Matrix trilogy

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X0JvQ TIL traditionally, Japanese cuisine does not include salmon sushi. However, in the 1980s, Norwegian producers sought to increase sales of their abundant salmon by inventing salmon sushi.
jGeE TIL In London from 1682 one could buy fire insurance: you attached a metal plate to their building ensuring that if there were a fire their insurance company would fight to extinguish it. If the building wasn’t insured the fire wasn’t put out unless it threatened to spread to an insured building.
grK1D TIL An anatomy professor named Dr Pedro Ara, best known for embalming Eva Peron and composer Manuel de Falla, carried the preserved head of an elderly peasant in his luggage to show off his skills to potential clients.
yQPMe TIL: These red ticks called the Lone Star Tick can make you allergic to red meat with their bite.
RZX8 TIL that Aztec kings wore cloaks made entirely of hummingbird skins—it would take about 8,000 hummingbirds to create an adult-size cloak.