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TIL the 7 placebo pills of hormonal contraceptives have no medical function. They were included in the 1960s to mimic menstruation and improve social and religious acceptance, especially in hopes of approval from the Catholic Church.

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Yp1r7 TIL that Harvey Weinsten wanted to cut a fish scene from the film Snowpiercer. Director Bong Joon Ho told Weinstein that the scene had personal importance, because his father was a fisherman. This was a lie. The scene stayed in.
MerA0 TIL - From 1900s - 1970s, the gay community of England sometimes communicated through a language called Polari, to protect themselves in a land in which homosexuality was illegal.
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