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TIL due to its intense graphic violence, Total Recall (1990) was originally given an X-rating. Several scenes were cut to secure an R-rating including Thumbelina stabbing Helm to death with a bowie knife, Richter's dissected arm & Quaid's ambush of the scientists upon fleeing the implant apparatus.

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pOO4 TIL: A british university actually funded a study that tested the theory that given a typewriter and enough time, a group of monkeys would recreate Shakespeare. The monkeys repeatedly deficated/urinated on the typewriter and were unsuccesful in typing more than one letter.
QNKMk TIL Crabs' claws and limbs have been successfully regenerated in their emptied-out eye sockets
DQDe TIL while accepting the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1976, Paul Simon thanked Stevie Wonder for not releasing an album that year. Wonder had won the award in 1974 and 1975, and would win it again 1977
bbrZ TIl Norway’s doctors still use floppy disks, apparently they’re more secure than modern alternatives.
6xOW TIL that in the siege of Weinsberg, a surrender granted the women the freedom to leave unharmed with whatever they could carry. Thinking quickly, the women carried their men on their backs to safety.