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TIL Jackie Stallone, the mother of Sylvester Stallone, is an astrologer and an experienced rumpologist, a pseudoscience wich consist of reading the past and future on a person's buttocks.

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7xjO TIL that in 1977, Aerosmith’s flight crew inspected a Convair CV-240 for possible use and rejected it because they felt the plane and crew were not up to their standards. That plane crashed on October 20, 1977 from fuel exhaustion due to poor maintenance, killing three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
R71p4 TIL Anne Frank wrote about the changes her body was going through in her diary, but her dad edited those parts out of the published manuscript.
D1JEV TIL Dr. Seuss was a painter. In addition to being a beloved author by many he also had some paintings. They were released after his death. The paintings are in varying styles but kept the seussian characters and constructs. These paintings can evoke strong emotions and can be thought provoking.
OD9X TIL that Mark Twain hated Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”: “Every time I read [it] I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
67LW TIL Harvey Weinstein, when put in charge of the American release of the Japanese anime “Princess Mononoke”, tried to make significant cuts. In response, a Studio Ghibli producer sent him a real Samurai sword with a simple, stark message attached to the blade: “No cuts”.