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TIL that when Sylvester Stallone was pitching his new script in the 70’s, the studio refused to make it with Stallone in the lead. He turned down $300k with only $106 in his bank account until the studio caved and made it with him as the star. That film was Rocky.

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a8L9Z TIL: During the 2000 United States Senate Election in Missouri, incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft lost to a the Democratic Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan, who died in a Plane Crash Three Weeks before Election Day
OoGgg When a United Airlines flight made an emergency landing this summer due to medical situations on board, as the oxygen masks fell down, some passengers’ phone cameras went up. But psychologists say the instinct to snap a selfie in a near-death experience isn’t all narcissism—it’s also about survival and self-preservation.
kJ4Zg TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related.
Z8oYB TIL eight children were stabbed to death in the Osaka school massacre committed by Mamoru Takuma in 2001. He seriously wounded fifteen others and was executed for his crimes.
XEEwP TIL death row inmates in Japan are held in solitary confinement and “told [when] they are to be hanged just hours before they are taken to the gallows.”Their families are notified only after their demise.