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TIL that there is a Fictious Athlete Hall of Fame, and Rocky Balboa is the inaugural member.

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XEZkX TIL The craze for collecting toy soldiers began with the French in the 18th century. When Napoleon Bonaparte planned his military campaigns, he used models made by Lucotte, a toy soldier maker, to show the positions of his armies. One day he handed a few of the figures over to his son to play with.
x65Kw TIL Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, was an avid fisherman in his retirement. When President Eisenhower, who considered him the most instrumental Allied leader in Hitler's defeat, learned this he had him sent a set of fishing tackle. Zhukov used it exclusively, for the rest of his life.
lod17 TIL George C. Scott agreed to star in "Patton" only if they used an earlier discarded script written by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola said "I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech".
Bgm1W TIL that Pliny the Elder, the ancient Roman historian, died at the eruption site of Pompeii evacuating survivors out of the area. When his crew began to see ash falling on their vessel as they approached, they advised him to turn back. He responded "Fortune favors the bold" and continued on.
M7VEB TIL that 'Magikkun', which means “mask fraud”, is a word that South Koreans use to describe people who hide their facial features by wearing masks on dating apps.