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TIL “Twister” (1996) was given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA Code and Ratings Board for “intense depiction of very bad weather.”

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pMxQ TIL: North Korea and the United States are the only countries that have their children pledge allegiance to the state in schools.
1687P TIL kangaroos lack the ability to move backwards. For this reason, the Australian army features the animals on their uniforms.
wAXP TIL the US has similar income inequality to Russia and China
kR1d TIL in 1977, William Kampiles stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for $3000. He then told the CIA for who he worked what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn’t and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
0wV8v TIL in 1960 the US government formed a clandestine group of elite scientists called JASON. "The Jasons" meet in secret every summer and includes 11 Nobel Prize winners. Their report on the futility of tactical nuclear weapons may have saved a lot of lives during the Vietnam War.