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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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xVA7B TIL Capital punishment has only been imposed twice in the history of the state of Israel, one was a mistake the other was Adolf Eichmann
neO4o TIL thieves stole a radiotherapy unit from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap. The caesium unit was opened and admired for its mysterious blue glow. Hundreds fell ill and 4 people died of radiation poisoning.
6kam TIL King Abdullah II of Jordon once cameo’d as an unnamed ensign on Star Trek Voyager
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