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TIL: Sylvester Stallone has spent 50 years writing and re-writing a screenplay about 'Edgar Allan Poe'. The script pre-dates Rocky and is the actor/writer/director's passion project.

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78YjX TIL of the Dunstable Swan Jewel. A gold & enamel swan brooch made in England or France in about 1400. It’s presumed to have been intended as a livery badge given by an important figure to his supporters; probably the future Henry V of England, who was Prince of Wales in 1399.
GWJE TIL If you’re an American traveling in North Korea, you call up the Swedish Embassy if in any type of danger.
KZYR TIL Witness protection in the US was instituted to protect people testifying against members of the KKK
woKO7 TIL that during the revolutionary war, significantly more African Americans fought for the British than did for the Americans. These fighters would be coined as Black Loyalists.
9YwMB TIL that all US astronauts since 2011 have to speak Russian.