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TIL Sylvester Stallone met Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky (1976), while the latter was an inmate at the prison where the Stallone film Lock Out was shot.

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6Ebk8 TIL after the Civil War the demand for labor grew, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries many children were drawn into the labor force. The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.
wLZJW TIL while on the set on Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Nicholas Cage had a stalker who also happened to be a mime. When talking about the experience Cage said, ""I was being stalked by a mime—silent, but maybe deadly."
7Opx TIL An abandoned lifeboat was found on the world’s most remote island in 1964. Its origin is still a mystery.
YvXA TIL Between 1898 and 1994, the U.S. government intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times.
oBnKA TIL that non-smokers have wider more rigid erections when compared to smokers, according to a study. This is a result of smoking causing damage to blood vessel walls and reducing their elasticity.