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TIL that Sylvester Stallone holds the record for the most Raspberry awards nominations with a whopping 14 nominations for worst actor and a further 3 for worst supporting actor beating Nicolas cage and Kevin Costner This is the same actor who acted in best picture winning Rocky as well as Rambo.

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a8MKN TIL the song "All Along the Watchtower" which is Jimi Hendrix's highest ranking single on the Billboard Hot 100 was written by Bob Dylan. Hendrix's version was released only 6 months after Dylan's version and Dylan's version was a top 20 single in 1968 as well.
kMR1 TIL Smile Mask Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. First described in Japan in 1983, this is attributed to the great importance placed on smiling in the Japanese service industry.
J1jKv TIL: Lemons are not a naturally occurring fruit. They were created in SE Asia by crossing a citron with a bitter orange around 4000 years ago. They were spread around the world after found to prevent scurvy. Life didn’t give us lemons.. We made them ourselves.
D10aV TIL Fan Bingbing disappeared from the Chinese public due to tax scandal. A sources broke that she had been under "residential surveillance" for the past three months. This isn't quite the same as house arrest. People are not allowed to contact lawyers or family members for help.
78bnO TIL that until the 1950s teaching of sign language in Australia was split along religious lines: Protestants learnt Auslan based on British Sign Language (BSL) while Catholics taught by Irish nuns learnt Australian Irish Sign Language (AISL). There are now only a few AISL speakers left.