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TIL NBC's broadcast of Schindler's List was the first film to get a TV-M rating and was unedited. The broadcast was controversial, with a Republican congressman complaining "it was all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity and a insult to decent-minded individuals everywhere".

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AXN7 TIL a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office
xVKr1 TIL about Clive Wearing, a former conductor and musician who suffers from chronic anterograde and retrograde due to a virus fever in 1985. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall past memories. He lives life believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state.
jpoM TIL that the Jews have been kicked out of 109 nations since 250AD
VlPQ TIL Viggo Mortensen, the actor who played Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, can speak English, Danish, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish
M7MY0 TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.