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TIL the original ending for First Blood had Rambo killing himself but Sylvester Stallone asked for it to be change because he believed the character had suffered enough

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Mem78 TIL three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space on Dec. 28, 1973. The astronauts turned off radio communications with NASA ground control.
PlxG TIL - One teaspoon of water contains about three times as many atoms as the Atlantic Ocean contains teaspoons of water
VBX5B TIL Socrates wrote nothing. All that is known about him has been inferred from accounts by members of his circle—primarily Plato and Xenophon—as well as by Plato's student Aristotle, who acquired his knowledge of Socrates through his teacher.
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bJK7 TIL that Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399) was a female king. Polish law had no provision for a female ruler (queen regnant), but did not specify that kings had to be male.