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TIL When Frank Sinatra collapsed on stage in 1994, his fans in audience included doctors and a half dozen of them ran up on stage to assist Sinatra

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W0bL TIL that Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal in March 2012 for charity. The buyer payed $1 million but immediatly returned it because he wanted it to stay in the family.
KOx79 TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse, is still alive. I swore he was super old in the 80's!
M7K1W Today I Learned (from DefunctLand) that Disney made a live action "Doug" at one of their theme parks in the 90s.
wbvJ TIL Somali actor Barkhad Abdi was paid $65000 for his role in Captain Phillips and after production finished returned home to sell cell phones.
R7V8Q TIL Hermann Goering's daughter has attempted to claim ownership of the art collections that the Nazi Leader stole during WW2. Her appeals have been rejected since the sixties.