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TIL That movie ratings are decided by a board of up to 10 parents who are all anonymous and all live in Los Angeles.

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Br7K TIL that Back to the Future II was originally going to take Marty McFly to 1967 where he’d meet an acid-tripping , motorcycle-riding Doc Brown and his hippie parents. The entire script is available online.
lo0A TIL George Washington never had wooden teeth–but his mouth contained transplanted human teeth from his slaves.
xMB TIL Nzinga of Matamba was a warrior queen who kept a harem of 60 men whom she dressed in women’s clothes
4BNX TIL every baseball used in the MLB since the 1950s has been treated with “rubbing mud” that is gathered from a secret location by the Bintliff family. The mud is used to help remove the slick finish on the ball and give the pitcher more grip.
6EAMw TIL there is a difference between a cemetery and a graveyard. A graveyard is on church grounds next to the churchyard