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TIL the final fight scene in Rocky Balboa (2006) was shot during an actual pay-per-view boxing match in Las Vegas. Sylvester Stallone traded real punches against former world champion, Antonio Tarver.

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v150r TIL eagles are good swimmers, but may drown while dragging heavier prey to shore. Not because they can't let go, but because they think the prey is worth it.
yVnRa TIL that Italian-born skier Alessia Afi Dipol had only been to Togo once before representing the African country at its first Winter Olympics in 2014. She became a citizen just before the games started and later said she chose to represent Togo because her father owns a clothing factory there.
1aeNX TIL The Bohemian Grove is a private campground in California where the rich and powerful go to party. In 2000 a camera was sneaked into the campground and shot the infamous video which showed the members acting out a 'Ritual' known as the Cremation of Care in front of a 30 foot owl.
l7BB1 TIL luxury British lingerie company Rigby & Peller lost its royal warrant of appointment after June Keaton, the company's owner and former bra-fitter to the Queen, referenced her trips to Buckingham Palace in her autobiography "Storm in a D-Cup".
VB0v4 TIL there is a tiny strip of land within Yellowstone Park called the “Zone of Death”. A constitutional quirk would allow a murder or other crime to take place, but not have enough resident to form a jury. Theoretically allowing a “get away with murder free zone”.