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TIL Sylvester Stallone was paid a mere $60,000 to do Cop Land in 1997. It is said that he did the film to play a serious role and escape his action hero type cast.

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amnZ TIL when the United States started taxing tires imported from China, China retaliated by taxing chicken feet imported from the United States, costing American poultry farmers $1 billion in sales.
a890L TIL about the short reign of King Zog I of Albania. Zog was an Albanian dictator who proclaimed himself king in 1928. He smoked 200 cigarettes a day and survived 55 assassination attempts. Within 10 years he took on so much debt that Italy eventually annexed the country and forced him out.
71MM TIL: Alaska has the highest rape rate in the U.S… 80 rapes per 100k.
grZ1y TIL The people giving out free samples at Costco do not work for Costco but a separate company
PYoNO TIL About Einstein's "Year of Miracles". In one year he published 3 papers that changed modern physics. The first about the particle theory of light (won him his Nobel Prize), the second led to people accepting the existence of atoms, and the third introduced special relativity (E=mc^2). He was 26.