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TIL that the 1998 film Small Soldiers nearly received an R Rating due to violence & explosions

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5Yr1p TIL Marie and Pierre Curie won the Physics Nobel Prize in 1903. Marie Curie won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1911. Marie's daughter Irène and her husband won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1935. In total, 15 people in the family were prominent researchers in physics, chemistry, biology or medicine.
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