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TIL instead of making a film about Iraq or Darfur, Stallone made Rambo 4 (2008) about “lesser-known” Myanmar military atrocities

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QJBk9 TIL about the oldest marathon runner Fauja Singh who ran his last race at the age of 101 and is currently alive and well at the age of 109.
g4yy TIL about a 70 year old woman who ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days.
nWG4b TIL that in 2014, the Copenhagen Zoo euthanized a healthy giraffe because they wanted to prevent him from breeding. The animal was killed, skinned, and fed to the zoos lions, all in full view of children
XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
XLwr TIL that Coolio regretted giving Weird Al a hard time about “Amish Paradise,” and feels “that was one of the dumbest things I did in my career.”