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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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KvP9 TIL: that Seattle Mariners is owned by Nintendo (yes that nintendo) and has an app on the 3DS where you can order food at the stadium
kAVE TIL for 10 years in the UK, there was a pro paedophile group that campaigned for the age of consent to be removed/lowered to just 4 years.
WDDo TIL the soviet military mapped the entire world with an extreme accuracy. They created more than 1 million maps and some are still used today. It remains one of the most ambitious cartography project till today.
D14v TIL that there is a Civil War/Dinosaur-themed amusement park in Natural Bridge, VA which features statues of Dinosaurs fighting Civil War Soldiers. Scroll Down.
9w6Z6 TIL During the first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, one of the outer window panes on the bathysphere cracked. They opted to continue, and successfully reached the bottom.