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TIL the highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska and Hawaii is the same 100°F

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1XW7 TIL During the making of “Rocky”, Sylvester Stallone asked Earnie Shavers (widely regarded as the hardest puncher in boxing) to punch him for real. After 1 punch, Stallone vomited.
e0Zvk TIL comedy writers Leonard Stern and Roger Price had an idea for a word game but didn't know what to call it. One day they overheard an actor saying he wanted to "Ad-Lib" an interview in which his agent called him "mad" for doing it. Stern and Price used that chat to call their creation Mad Libs.
E1VaV TIL after being misspelled for 54 years, the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge in New York City had its name corrected in 2018.
JY40m TIL, with the exception of one hill, it is illegal to sled in Syracuse, the snowiest city in the United States
p5YN TIL Fred Phelps, founder of the anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church, was excommunicated by his own church just before his death for advocating being kinder to members.