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TIL that Clerks was originally rated NC-17 solely because of its graphic dialogue, until Alan Dershowitz (Harvard Law Professor and major civil rights advocate) convinced the MPAA to lower it to Rated-R

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Rda8 TIL that there are three power grids in America. One for the West one for the East and one for…Texas.
woL7 TIL that Henry Kissinger’s senior thesis was 383 pages. After he published it, Harvard created the “Kissinger rule,” which restricted the length of all future undergraduate papers to 150 pages.
0dgDj TIL that spider blood is blue and you are on average never more than 10 feet away from the nearest spider (with some geographical exceptions).
QJJPe TIL that Al-qaeda initially considered targeting nuclear power plants on 9/11 but decided against it, fearing that such an attack "might get out of hand".
xV57o TIL students in competitions to design fuel-efficient vehicles routinely design vehicles capable of travelling THOUSANDS of miles per gallon of gas.