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TIL that ‘Eye of The Tiger’ was written after Stallone was denied the rights to 'Another One Bites The Dust’

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oBAYE TIL about Leo Major, a Canadian Soldier that liberated the Dutch town of Zwole from the Nazis all by himself.
nB4r TIL that an Ethiopian girl was brutally beaten by seven men, until a pride of lions chased the men away and proceeded to stay with and protect the girl until help arrived.
9YA6p TIL that the top two sumo referees, tate-gyōji, have daggers on hand while officiating matches. These daggers symbolize the referees' willingness to ritualistically disembowel themselves if a call of theirs is overruled. In modern times, they submit resignation letters when they make a poor call.
Jy81 TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.
LoDZ TIL every episode of Family Guy includes at least one instance of a character saying “What the hell …”