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TIL that Sylvester Stallone, with $106 in his bank account, refused an offer of $360,000 for a script he had written in his career’s infancy, in favor of making it himself. That script was Rocky.

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GAPPG TIL of the fate of Mr. Cheeseface, the dog featured on the cover of National Lampoon magazine with a gun to his head. He was actually shot and killed by an unknown assailant a few years later on a farm in rural Vermont
5Y10p TIL of the 4 Chaplains. A Jewish Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and 2 Protestant ministers who were on the SS Dorchester when it was torpedoed. The 4 helped evacuate the ship and gave away their own lifejackets when supply ran out, then joined arms and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.
N7Q48 TIL Black apples exist. In a remote part of Tibet grow "Black Diamond Apples". This is due to the amount of UV light they receive along with temperature fluctuations at night.
VMROZ TIL: Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes, even ones he worked with decades ago. Louis Theroux, documentary maker, even went to his grandmother's 100th Birthday Party to find 100 cupcakes from Tom Cruise, after Tom worked with his cousin.
vPVQ8 TIL ancient Greeks would irrigate battle wounds with vinegar and honey and then use spiderwebs to keep the honey in the wound