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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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5YRoP TiL About The Map: Vesuvius, 1832 ,Kate Wiles on Auldjo’s artistic map of Vesuvius across 200 year of major eruptions.
R5BYl TIL about Yeti Airlines Flight 691, which tragically crashed with no survivors when one pilot, while landing just a few hundred meters from the runway, mistakenly pulled the lever to feather the propellers instead of the one to increase the flap angle.
LkA1p TIL that 5 of the 6 longest bridges in the US are in Louisiana.
oRVQo TIL a man had purchased a $2 tintype photograph at an antique shop, only to uncover its astonishing secret – it was an exceedingly rare image of Billy the Kid, making it just the second known photograph in existence of the iconic outlaw. The tintype photograph has since been appraised at $5 million.
R7bQ TIL: In 1895, Empress Myeongseong of Korea was murdered and had her corpse burned by 20 Japanese agents. A Russian architect made an eyewitness account.