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TIL that during the filming of Rocky IV Sylvester Stallone was hit so hard by Dolph Lundgren, he spent 8 days within intensive care. The injuries he sustained are usually caused by steering wheel trauma to the chest in car accidents. Stallone said "in a sense I was hit by a 'streetcar named drago'"

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KOWa4 TIL about the Babushka Lady, an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot.
dbg7 TIL of Nobuo Fujita, the only person to ever drop a bomb on the contiguous U.S. He was later invited back to the town he unsuccessfully bombed but carried his family’s 400 y/o sword to commit seppuku if he received a hostile reception. He was greeted warmly, and donated the sword to the town instead
Jabj TIL the FBI was right to watch Earnest Hemingway. He was a failed KGB spy.
9w8O7 TIL: Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995.
Od6L TIL that 35 policemen armed with AK47’s had to rescue a shaved orangutan that was being used as a sex slave in a Borneo brothel in Indonesia.