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TIL Sylvester Stallone’s crooked mouth is due to paralysis of the lower left side of his mouth, from birth complications. Furthermore, actor Milo Ventimiglia suffers from the same problem and subsequently starred as Stallone’s on screen son in Rocky Balboa.

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