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TIL the 1983 film "Scarface" was originally given an X rating three times in a row by the MPAA. On the fourth appeal, the film was finally given an R rating, but director Brian De Palma released the original version anyway, only admitting to it months after the film's release.

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epDXD TIL the Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes each year, surpassing sales of Oreos, not to mention sales of all Chips Ahoy and Milano cookies combined
0dANp TIL: Milli Vanilli were created by the same man who created Boney-M (who also lip synced and didn’t sing)
QJ5pk TIL until about the ninth week of gestational age the external genitalia of males and females look the same. After this stage, the what ends up being the scrotum raphe (the vertical line on the scrotum on males) grows from the labioscrotal folds which grow in to the labia on females
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BomL TIL USSR’s first long-range bomber, the Tu-4, was such an exact copy of a confiscated American B-29 that it even featured a repair patch on its fuselage where the original plane had been damaged.