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TIL that there was a sequel to Saturday Night Fever called Staying Alive. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone and currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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0w50N TIL America's last wooly Mammoths died of thirst 15 000 years ago after the land bridge to Russia eroded stranding them on a small, remote island Alaskan Island.
9wxL6 TIL Alysson Muotri wants Sentiomics: Sentiomics is the development and ‘education’ of human brain organoids to become sentient.
b6m1j TIL about the first black musician invited to the white house. Sugar Chile Robinson.
5V8oR TIL of the saola aka 'the Asian unicorn'. It is one of the world's rarest large mammals and is a forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos. It was first described and photographed in 1993. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, but they died within weeks and months.
yVlre TIL that in 1976, a man named Robert E. Casey was elected Treasurer of Pennsylvania because voters thought he was outgoing Auditor General and future Governor of Pennsylvania Robert P. Casey. He ran for re-election in 1980, but lost to his opponent R. Budd Dwyer.