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TIL Sylvester Stallone’s mother is a psychic, specializing in rumpology, who reads butts.

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9wZ8X TIL Johannes Kepler's mother Katharina, who first sparked his interest in astronomy at age 6 with the Great Comet of 1577, was accused of witchcraft using garbled contents of mankind's first science fiction The Dream, which he wrote. He succeeded in acquitting and releasing her alive, a rare result
6Ejwl TIL In the original book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom was actually an honorable man put to death for not telling the location of two escaped slave women. It was only in later adaptations he was portrayed as a house negro and his name became synonymous with being a servile race traitor.
ZAmv TIL that JFK’s daughter was secretly gifted the puppy of the first Russian dog in space as part of a series of secret daily correspondence between JFK and Kruschev. The dog then proceeded to bite every Kennedy
NlKQ TIL the man who received the world’s first penis transplant conceived a child 6 months after the surgery.
eY1D TIL the oldest person in US federal custody is 99 years old John Franzese, underboss of the of Colombo crime family