Post * X0KwD — Curious Curator

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TIL Keanu Reeves’s stunt double in The Matrix went on to direct Keanu in the John Wick movies.

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p8DW8 TIL about a Toyota Highlander ramming house more than once and the owner claimed it did it on it's own accord.

R7Kd7 TIL building contractors and architectural engineers in Alaska have an adage when it comes to building in the Arctic or near-Arctic regions: "If it’s frozen, keep it frozen; if it’s thawed, keep it thawed".

wLoe8 Everybody knows not to shine laser pointers in your eye. They could damage your vision! (Emphasis on could, since your eye’s blink reflex would probably protect your retina.) But what if you were an evil villain determined to make a death ray? How many laser pointers would it take to create a deadly weapon?

4XgON TIL that Vin Diesel named his daughter Pauline in honor of his late friend, Paul Walker.

Oo4b7 TIL a boucanier was a French hunter in the Caribbean who smoked meat on a wooden frame called a boucane. Boucaniers sold their meat to the corsairs operating around the Caribbean. Eventually the corsairs themselves were referred to as boucaniers, later anglicized as "buccaneers".