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

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GAkpQ TIL in the 1800’s bananas were seen as “immoral fruit” because of their shape. Fruit companies began issuing postcards of women eating bananas to advertise the fruit wasn’t taboo.
rX6x TIL California has a free, online, state-run program that will do your taxes for you, and I didn’t know about it because the people I pay to file my taxes have fought to keep it hidden.
m6no TIL in 2005 A Texas man created an internet controlled remote firearm with webcam mount for people wanting to hunt game online. It was quickly shut down by the Government of Texas.
NZAP TIL there was an experiment done on Caucasian 3rd graders in 1968 called the “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise which segregated the children by eye color. The exercise was held the day after Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination with the purpose of teaching students the effects of being a minority.
ryGe TIL a man went over a year without food. When he started, he weighed over 450 pounds, and was about 180 when he finished. Doctors monitored him during this time, giving him supplements as needed.