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TIL Sylvester Stallone broke his neck while filming a fight scene for The Expendables, which required the insertion of a metal plate

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8ew1G TIL Benjamin Franklin Was a Big a Pervert as TFG
x6bjb TIL In 1997, five million Lego pieces fell off a cargo ship along the coasts of England. Ironically, many of these pieces were themed around sea creatures, this is the worst toy-related environmental disaster of all time, and beachcombers still uncover the shipwrecked plastic treasures today.
OG1W7 TIL Takuya Kimura would likely not have been cast as Howl (Ghibli) if his manager Hiromu Kitagawa didn't take the Shinkansen to an earlier-than-planned press conference in 1985, avoiding Japan Airlines flight 123.
AN0Mo TIL that Republicans have won Alaska in all but one of the presidential elections it has participated in since it's admission to the Union, with the sole exception being when Lyndon Johnson carried the state in 1964. No state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate fewer times.
OGn9L TIL that before it was "Donner and Blitzen," it was "Donder and Blitzen," and before that it was "Dunder and Blixem," which is colloquial New York Dutch meaning "Thunder and Lightning."