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TIL Pope Innocent VIII was given the blood of 3 young boys while in a coma in an attempt to save his life. All four died.

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kjlE TIL , On his 29th Birthday Sylvester Stallone had only $106 in his bank account , which he later spend on watching a fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner who inspired the movie and Balboa’s underdog personality in Rocky.
D1GPV TIL the stem end of a cucumber (and other related fruits and vegetables) tastes different from the other end due to a higher concentration of a bitter compound called cucurbitacin.
Wk7B8 TIL: When Don McLean was asked what the lyrics to the iconic song "American Pie" mean, he said, "It means I never have to work again."
4koVX TIL Roman Emperor Claudius Augustus had crazy gas and loved it!
9YGJM TIL that the letter K was effectively dropped from the Welsh language in the late 1500s, simply because the (English) printers didn't have enough Ks for the newly translated Welsh New Testament; the translator instructed them to use Cs instead and the convention stuck.