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TIL Stallone is the only actor in the history of American cinema to have starred in a box-office number-one film across six consecutive decades

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eYGk TIL Harris Rosen offered scholarships to students in a very poor neighborhood, Tangelo Park, who got good grades and completely changed the socioeconomics of the area. He has adopted another neighborhood project but 5 times larger in an area near Orlando called Parramore District.
kOPPm TIL there are two birth anomalies - superfecundation (twins with separate fathers) and chimerism (absorbed twins), that if combined, will create a single human with two biological fathers.
N7wae TIL the United States Secret Service was founded to investigate and combat counterfeit U.S. currency. Only after the assassination of McKinley in 1901 was it tasked with protecting the President.
KYDb6 TIL the work Alan Turing and others worked on at Bletchley Park is estimated to have shortened World War 2 in Europe by over two years and saved over 14 million lives.
o568 TIL the African country of Liberia was founded by Americans to resettle freed black slaves. It is the first and oldest republic in Africa and is the only African country to have gained independence without revolt from a colonial power.