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TIL Keanu Reeves’s stuntman in The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, directed the John Wick movies

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9Y7GG TIL that acacias, the trees whose leaves are eaten by giraffes, release an airborne chemical called ethylene. Ethylene alerts nearby acacia trees to produce tannin, a toxin that makes the leaves poisonous, and lethal if over-consumed. Giraffes try avoiding this by eating trees downwind from another.
8eN9G TIL that Florence mills’ house was designated a landmark, but it was the wrong house. The right house had been demolished. This marks the only time a landmark in New York City has been stripped of its label.
4XWXg TIL that the first documented same-sex marriage in the Philippines is between two guerrilla fighters Ka Jose and Ka Andres, members of New People's Army, a communist organization.
GOwE TIL that there is a 17-percent increase in traffic fatalities on the Monday after clocks spring forward
Z8e7Q TIL 96% of murderers, and 79% of the murdered in worldwide are male.