Post * wMp6 — Curious Curator

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TIL Sylvester Stallone hated the first 3.5 hour cut of “Rambo: First Blood Part I” so much, that it made him and his agent sick. He wanted to buy the movie and destroy it thinking it was a career killer. Ultimately, a heavily re-edited 93 minute cut was sent for theatrical release.

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0wkmv TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman was once starstruck when he found jazz legend Miles Davis swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. Hoffman played it cool and pretended he didn't know who the mysterious man was and his indifference earned him an afternoon chat about everything except music.

aGAN TIL in the iconic painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”, the man carrying the flag is Lieutenant James Monroe, who would later become the United States’ fifth president.

VMd44 TIL that Kim Jong-Il was said to be a huge film fan, owning a collection of more than 20,000 video tapes and DVDs. His reported favorite movie franchises included James Bond, Friday the 13th, Rambo, Godzilla and Hong Kong action cinema

yQmpX TIL In 1866, Henry Bergh — founder of the ASPCA — sued a group of sailors for mistreating the turtles they kept aboard as provisions. Newspapers around the country ridiculed him... which was exactly what he wanted.

0dM7j TIL I learned that in 2018 Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, ran an ad campaign branding itself as the "G-Spot of Europe" accompanied by the slogan "Nobody knows where it is, but when you get there - it's amazing."