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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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0wRXv TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s mother (named Marion Moon) shot herself before his lunar flight because she didn’t know if she could cope with his impending fame. He then fell into depression and alcoholism after his flight.
OoA8L TIL - Elephants are one of the few species on Earth with ‘Death Rituals’, whereby the herd will gather around the dead, cover the body and mourn the death. They have also been known to revisit the bones of the dead, sometimes years after the death.
d80Zj TIL that loofah (the kind used for scrubbing in the shower) is actually an edible vegetable.
bKV7 TIL that a German landlord once evicted a tenant without notice for pouring surstromming in the stairwells of the the building. When sued over the eviction, he won the case by opening a can of surstromming in the court, convincing the court that the smell of the fish brine was too much to tolerate.
WkDML TIL that in 1937 Fred Morrison got inspiration to create a plastic flying disc after initially throwing a pie pan from the Frisbie Pie Company. Twenty years later, the disc was named a Frisbee, as a nod to the pie company.