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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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yBJJ TIL Nalgene originally made their plastic containers for lab work and hikers had to buy the iconic bottles from lab suppliers
79JZ TIL that author John Steinbeck was investigated by the FBI for being acquaintances with leftists and attempting to write a novel exposing the conditions in Japanese concentration camps in 1943.
dgoK TIL that Saddam Hussein’s love of a grilled fish dish called masgouf caused the U.S. to discover Saddam Hussein’s hiding place in 2003.
BrKAb TIL that the sound we make when we sneeze is not natural and we feel obliged to add it. Deaf poeple don't add any sound effect, like "Atchoo" when they sneeze.
xV9p7 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. only got clean because his girlfriend (now wife) saw him on drugs, then gave him an ultimatum of quitting or losing her. He stopped at a Burger King on the coast and threw his drugs in the ocean. She is now known around Hollywood as "the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey."