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TIL about the "Chicken Tax"

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jNxKv TIL that Sylvester Stallone considers his 1992 movie 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' as “maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen," and "a flatworm could write a better script."