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TIL Keanu Reeves got the role for Neo in The Matrix because Will Smith turned it down in order or shoot Wild Wild West

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KOdV9 TIL Bananas produce antimatter. They release one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes.
MdR8 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt, under threat of a bully at a bar and with a gun pointed at him, is told to make the man a drink, to this he stands up and says ‘Well, if I’ve got to, I’ve got to,’ and throws a right hook, knocking the man down. The bully later left town on a train.
1NP7 TIL pillbugs are actually crustaceans and not insects
69dlX TIL about Choi Eun-hee, a South Korean actress of the 60s and 70s, was kidnapped to North Korea with her ex-husband and forced to make films until their escape to the US embassy in 1986.
Lk6Kp TIL James Chadwick intended studying mathematics, but he was interviewed by a physicist who assumed Chadwick wanted to study physics. He was too shy to contradict him, so ended up enrolling as a physics major.