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TIL Sylvester Stallone said that whilst shooting critically-panned D-Tox (2006) the teamsters met the cast at airport holding signs saying DETOX, making it look like Kris Kristofferson, Tom Berenger and Stallone were all going into rehab rather than a film shoot.

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VBlRk TIL of Francis Bowes Sayre Jr., grandson of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. Unlike his grandfather, who authorized and imposed widespread federal segregation, Francis was a fierce opponent of segregation, going so far as to march alongisde Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery.
AaZo TIL McCall’s magazine released it’s first issue in 1873 and was one of America’s oldest and longest running magazines until Rosie O'Donnell took control of it in 2000, renamed it “Rosie”, and by 2002 had officially killed it.
D1Bbj TIL 'Infinite Monkey Theorem' was tested using real monkeys. Monkeys typed nothing but pages consisting mainly of the letter 'S.' The lead male began typing by bashing the keyboard with a stone while other monkeys urinated and defecated on it. They concluded that monkeys are not "random generators"
R7jel TIL: Disney's theme park ride "Pirates of the Caribbean" originally used real human skeletons as props
Egedx TIL Cows were brought to Japan from China in the 2nd century. Until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were used only as draught animals, in agriculture, forestry, mining and for transport, also a source of fertilizer. Due to cultural and religious reasons, meat and milk was not consumed.