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TIL in the original script to Rocky V, Rocky is so beaten from his fight with Tommy that he places his head on Adrian’s lap while on the way to the hospital and dies. Stallone apparently wept when he wrote that scene.

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lA7K TIL that New York City banned Trans Fats in 2014. Three years later, Heart attacks and strokes fell by more than 6 percent
16VgP TIL the Pointer Sisters, who were megastars in the early 1980s with dance/pop songs such as "I'm So Excited", "Jump (For My Love)", and "Automatic", won their first Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Country Vocal Performance for the country song "Fairytale", written by sisters Anita and Bonnie Pointer.
R5pB1 TIL that Vincent Price was not only an actor and art historian, but also a gourmet chef, and he released not one, not two, but four cookbooks during his lifetime! Price also recorded a number of audio cooking tutorials titled "International Cooking Course."
m1JoM TIL anyone joining the French Foreign Legion MUST do so anonymously with a fake name. After 1 year they can request permission to divulge their real name or, if they “are in trouble with the law”, the Legion will issue official documents for the fake name so they can can fully assume a new identity.
0wBdR TIL in the ‘30s Soichi Sakamoto, 6th grade teacher in Maui, developed H.I. interval training for competitive swimming. Soichi had no experience as a swimmer & coach. He used irrigation ditches to train. A number of his pupils medaled in the Olympics, and many of his training methods are used today.