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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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W7Edo TIL that the last war chief of the Crow Nation earned his title in Europe during WW2. He completed all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse.
v1vaL TIL new knitting patterns were banned in both world wars as a counter-measure to knitted coded messages
0wnON TIL about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the first person to introduce inoculation to Britain (70 years before Jenner) based on a practice she observed whilst travelling around the ottoman empire
oA97 TIL that because of a lucky genetic mutation happened in the 18th century, today 38 people in a small town in northern Italy don’t suffer from cholesterol artery-clogging, making them virtually immune to heart disease and strokes. They all smoke, they eat like hell, and they don’t care
e0grb TIL Detroit once gave Saddam Hussein the key to the city after he donated to a local church.