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TIL that Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria produced the 2014 Keanu Reeves action film John Wick.

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Y7JmB TIL that everything from the ice hockey Stanley Cup, Port Stanley in the Falklands, Brisbane's Stanley county and Liverpool's Stanley Dock and Park are all named after one father and son.
78BZb TIL John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, and Abraham Zapruder all died or were declared dead at the same hospital: Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
Y7Qm7 TIL about the "cangue" A brutal wooden collar used in ancient China for public humiliation and punishment. It was so heavy and restrictive that prisoners couldn't feed themselves and often died from exhaustion or starvation.
x6Ppk TIL John Quincy Adams (the sixth U.S. president) met both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (the first and 16th).
8eE6K TIL that "cooties" comes from WWI slang for body lice. American English caught cooties when veterans returned home in the 1920s