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TIL Rocky's first name is Robert. (As in the Rocky films) Never heard him called that EVER but apparently he was referenced as "Robert" in Rocky V.

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Z8Nwo TIL in 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
LkvGv TIL that some fish can fly to avoid predators, video footage from BBC
LkyKQ TIL about Félicette, the first and only cat to make it to space & back
yQQjM TIL Adolf Hitler was the first European leader to ban human zoos.
R7lNl TIL in the UK it is illegal to find and keep buried treasure to yourself. You are required by law to report the find to a coroner and then offer it for sale to a national museum. Failure to do so can lead to imprisonment.