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TIL That movie ratings are arbitrarily handed out by a full-time Board of 8 to 13 parents in Los Angeles, CA. The only qualifications are "parenthood experience" and possessing an "intelligent maturity".

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N7MwQ TIL parents filed an ethics complaint against a High School Biology teacher for using the word "vagina" while teaching reproduction.
LJlP TIL The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO, or the Communist Bloc.
YpLe7 TIL doctors, nurses and Catholic clergy were involved in stealing ~ 300,000 babies during the Franco era in Spain. Children were moved from parents deemed "undesirable" and placed them with "approved" families. Birth mothers were told their baby had died.
oRweK TIL that people in the Medieval era shared their bed with the entire family and even the occasional overnight visitor - only the very rich could afford more than one bed and poor people just slept on piles of cloth/hay on the floor.
x6aBB TIL Clint Eastwood served as the mayor of a city in California