Post * Yp58v — Curious Curator

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TIL that Team America: World Release initially received an NC-17 rating due to the sex scene. The initial cut lasted a minute and a half and showed the puppets urinating and defecating on each other. Nine edits were shown to the MPAA before it was approved and cut down to 50 seconds.

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Y7Wgx TIL that legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker unsuccessfully auditioned for a "Weird Al" Yankovic film(titled UHF)

epmwb TIL as late as the 1960's, the Ivy League undergraduate programs were only open to men—the exception being Cornell which has been open to women since 1865. Columbia became the last in 1983 to become coeducational.

jN1GR TIL Major James Robertson of Australian Army once stole one of the only 20 German tanks from no man’s land, while being attacked by machine gun and mustard gas.

VMdN8 TIL that in 1964, Robert Peabody was exposed to 7 Sieverts/10K rads of radiation after confusing his chemicals, adding uranium solution instead of trichloroethane to his Uranium-235 mixture. He died 49 hours later.

e7PL TIL that a couple took in three orphans and used them to get Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to build them a new house. After the house was built, they kicked the orphans out.