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TIL After Rocky IV release there was jokes making rounds that since rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight and alien in the fifth installment. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on that joke which became the movie Predator.

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LQ56d TIL that Cape Disappointment was so named, by John Meares in 1788, who was searching for the mouth of the Columbia River as charted on Spanish maps. He had found the river but mistakenly thought the mouth was a bay, that the Spanish maps were wrong, and called it Deception Bay.
8eJ1a TIL That prior to 1936, The South African Government Issued Licenses to Hunt Native African Tribesmen.
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