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TIL in Brazil, Playstation 4 will cost over $1,800.

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ne6ro TIL Sylvester Stallone was given the role in Beverly Hills Cop before Eddie Murphy. He rewrote the script, replacing the comedy with action and renamed him "Axel Cobretti" but it would be too expensive so he agreed to back out. His next film was "Cobra", considered his version of Beverly Hills Cop.
Egknw TIL that there are three summers. Today marks the start Astronomical Summer (from summer solstice to autumnal equinox). There is also Meteorological Summer (June, July and August) and Solar Summer (the solstice is the mid point so summer started 45 days ago).
4jWo TIL that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to make assumptions that aren’t based on facts and logical thinking.
5Vn4D TIL that the term 'intellectual' (as in, the noun, 'an intellectual') was coined to describe the debates surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, the famous scandal of a Jewish French soldier falsely convicted of treason
E1ODp TIL in 1848, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch and the first plausible solution to the Olbers Paradox. This was 100+ years before any of those were accepted scientific facts and Einstein would later call it "a beautiful achievement".