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TIL disposable electronic cigarettes contain perfectly good rechargeable lithium ion batteries

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nepp9 TIL the 1995 film Judge Dredd was re-cut and sent to the MPAA 5 times to get it from a NC-17 to a R rating; Stallone tried to cut it even more for a PG-13 rating. The director had made the film dark and satirical like the source material; Stallone thought the film was supposed to be an action comedy
4kyYo TIL “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion from the movie Titanic was playing in the dining hall when the Costa Concordia crashed in 2012
loxRA TIL about Charlotte Woodward Pierce, who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention (in favor of women's rights) as a teenager and was its only attendant to live long enough to see women get the right to vote in 1920. She was 91 then and her failing health prevented her from voting that year.
oBQrA TIL that Mr. Rogers responded to every letter he recieved from children who wrote to him
Xr8X TIL of a tragic literal Death by PowerPoint – Boeing’s analysis of damage to Space Shuttle Columbia was obscured by terrible PowerPoint slides, leading NASA officials to OK the fatal reentry.