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TIL the average Buzzfeed article is written at only a 4th grade level

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O9Pg TIL that in Rocky Horror Picture Show the red triangle Dr. Frank ‘n’ Furter wears over his heart was used by the Nazis in concentration camps to denote that the wearer was a gay man, but it was pointing downward. He wore it pointing upward, which is often used as a symbol of gay pride….
JYXjV TIL Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII, her funeral was the first Protestant funeral in England, Scotland or Ireland to be held in English. She is the only royal to be buried in a private residence.
v1EGB TIL that the Secret Service agent who saved President Reagan's life joined the Secret Service after seeing a movie starring Ronald Reagan as a Secret Service Agent.
8aPL TIL That King Philip of Macedon lost his eye in a battle. When his men picked up the arrow that had pierced him, written on the shaft was “To Philip’s Eye!” The Archer had called his shot.
Y7JOB TIL Sylvester Stallone met Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky (1976), while the latter was an inmate at the prison where the Stallone film Lock Out was shot.