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TIL Sylvester Stallone didn't just star in 'Rocky,' he also wrote the script and choreographed its boxing scenes.

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1609d TIL That the iconic red stapler in Office Space was simple spray painted, it wasn't till three years after the film release when Swingline started actually selling red staplers
GM15 TIL Walt Disney’s original vision for EPCOT was to build a constantly transforming, livable, planned community devoted to the happiness of its residents and that would solve many of the ills of city life. He called it the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT for short.
X0gWj Til no child with type I diabetes survived until adulthood before 1922.
MelAa TIL Johannes Kepler wrote the world's first genuine science fiction in 1609. The novel advanced a Copernican model of the universe, described gravity decades before Newton, envisioned speech synthesis centuries before computers, and presaged space travel three hundred years before the Moon landing.
WklwL TIL Composer Ravel's repeating melody in 'Boléro' was likely caused by a symptom of Alzheimer's disease, which eventually led to his death.