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TIL Rats in a cage with drugs don't use drugs if they're given enough to do.

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4DgX TIL John Wick was directed by Keanu Reeves’ stunt double in The Matrix trilogy. He also did work on Spider-Man 2, V for Vendetta, Rambo, Spy Kids, and many others. John Wick was also his directorial debut.
0wY8j TIL: Completed in 2007, Moscow now has a whole extra Kremlin. This one's mostly for shopping.
9wWB6 TIL that the French statesman Tallyrand lived for two years in the United States during the French Revolution, meeting Benedict Arnold by chance and living in the house of Aaron Burr. When Burr moved to France in self-imposed exile ten years later, Tallyrand refused to return the favour.
4X41J TIL that after the death of several Northern Irish republicans in a prison hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street where the British Embassy in Tehran is located from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street, after one of the strikers.
WkAKo TIL: Up until 1972, tennis balls used to be black and white, and were changed to their neon color today because people had trouble seeing them on television.