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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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WkQb4 TIL that Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet, in 1943 tried to escape from a Nazi work camp in Tarnopol (now Ukraine), for which he was sentenced to death. While digging his own grave, he killed a guard with a shovel and successfully escaped disguised as a Wermacht soldier.
LY0P TIL It takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials.
B7r TIL Ugland House in the Cayman Islands has over 18,000 companies registered in the five story building, yet the law firm that owns it (Maples and Calder) claims it’s not for tax evasion purposes.
xVPnw TIL Neils Bohr was gifted a house with free beer for life on winning the Nobel. A beer pipeline was connected from the Carlsberg brewery nextdoor to this house. Bohr stayed there from 1932 until his death in 1962.
e08L4 TIL in 1955, a local Sears store in Colorado Springs, CO, had an ad stating children can call Santa on Christmas Eve. The phone number listed was misprinted, and calls were directed to NORAD; thus starting a yearly tradition