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TIL that due to complications during Sylvester Stallone’s birth, the doctors misused two pairs of forceps, accidentally severing a nerve and causing paralysis in parts of his face. This accident has given him his snarling look and slightly slurred speech.

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6Ebwm TIL about the presocratic philosopher Empedocles. He claimed to have magical powers and a divine status, and would walk around Sicily in a large purple robe. Apparently, he died when he jumped into Etna, an active volcano, to prove to his followers that he really was a god.
P1e8e TIL that Hergé's Tintin album "Cigars of the Pharaoh" was made into a play in 1941 called Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond.
oygL TIL a crime watch meeting in Florida was interrupted by a falling 75lb bale of cocaine that had been ejected from a drug smuggling plane flying overhead
jQPQ TIL that the South Park team begins episode production only a week before the air date, including script writing. Sometimes they even send the episode over just a few hours before it airs.
w8r7 TIL Roald Dahl (author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’)was a real life James Bond who seduced women to gain intelligence during WWII.