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TIL that on the set of Rocky IV, Lundgren (Ivan Drago) punched Sylvester Stallone so hard that he had to be sent to the hospital, where they thought he had been hit by a car.

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m1gpO TIL that old Celtic, English, and Germanic folk would participate in an event called “flyting”: where two people would poetically throw insults and crude humor at each other in a duel of dictionary skill; it was essentially the earliest form of rap battling
5Y5oR TIL Monty Python member Terry Gilliam was author J.K Rowling’s first choice to direct the first Harry Potter movie, but was rejected for Chris Columbus. inan interview he said “I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter… I mean, Chris Columbus’ versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian”
KO4rR TIL Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period
P19lG TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors.
Jkn1 TIL: Women were not allowed to wear trousers on the US Senate floor until 1993 when two senators defied the ban. Later that year the rule was amended to allow women to wear trousers.