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TIL Japan's film rating system includes PG-12 & R-15+ ratings.

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4wka TIL that after a man died from continuously laughing for 25 minutes while watching an episode of the 1970s British TV Show ‘The Goodies’, his widow sent a letter to the show thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant.
R7Xv6 TIL about John Atanasoff, who built the first digital computer, but got very little credit because his employer, Iowa State College, never filed the patent application
M7AMV TIL Two of the most repetitive classical music pieces, Handel's Sarabande and Ravel's Bolero are almost exactly 200 years apart.
X01pX TIL that the word ‘sandwich’ came from a lazy dude (the earl of sandwich) who didn’t want to leave the gaming table so just ate sandwiches- cold meat between 2 bits of bread
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