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Bryvb TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the script for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.
8aGOK TIL that in 2007, Scotland spent six months of research and £ 125,000 to create a new slogan that would boost tourism. They came up with "Welcome to Scotland".
WkGEo TIL that in Portugal, there is a party where children are encouraged to smoke
R78N7 TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes. A elit military unit in ancient Greece which consisted of 150 pairs of gay lovers. They were feared and honored as the best warriors in all of Greece and even won against the then Greece superpower Sparta.
OGjL7 TIL that human body temperature has been declining by 0.05 degrees F each decade