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OG48g TIL that 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time, and against all odds, lasted 15 rounds with the champ. Stallone was in the audience.
ANoPB Today I learned that after Pres Roosevelt died, 1st lady Eleanor planned to quit public service but Truman appointed her as a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly where she helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-which she considered her greatest achievement.
QNG5d TIL Graham Young, known as the Teacup Poisoner, was released from a mental institution despite informing a psychiatric nurse that he intended to kill one person for every year he had been incarcerated