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TIL John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, was Keanu Reeve's stunt double in The Matrix

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R7v8w TIL that the US bombed the South indiscriminately with pesticides to try to eradicate fire ants but instead killed native insects and birds that otherwise would have kept them in control
6E4DY TIL J.R.R Tolkien's first identifiable Middle-Earth character was a Half-Elven Mariner named "Eärendil", who came from his poem "The Last Voyage of Eärendil" written in 1914.
GYErj TIL a statue of Penn State head coach Joe Paterno was unveiled in 2001, alongside a wall with a quote from Paterno- "I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach." It was removed in 2012 following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
ADgZw TIL The most Edgar Allen Poe was paid for a single work was $100 for his story 'The Gold Bug'. He earned $9 for his most famous poem 'The Raven' which made him a celebrity. He lamented, "I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life—except in hope, which is by no means bankable"
AD4j4 TIL there are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking