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TIL Sylvester Stallone was the third person Ever to be nominated for Best Actor and Best Writer Oscars in the same year (for Rocky), following only Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin.

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aOgJ TIL there is an extinct genus of ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood up to 9.8 feet tall, weighed as much as 1,190 pounds and have lived alongside modern humans for tens of thousands of years.
Mev8m TIL notorious killer, Richard Kulinski, once put a body into a barrel of cement and left it in front of a diner. He regularly visited the diner waiting for the body to be discovered until one day the barrel went missing. The diner's patrons never discussed it and the body was never recovered.
vomr TIL there are prime numbers that are illegal to possess or distribute. One of the first ones, found in 2001, was used to bypass copyright protection on DVDs.
wLL1o Really, really old
vRKB TIL in 1946 US researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates and insane asylum patients to test the effectiveness of Penicillin.