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TIL: There was a big budget pornographic movie ($1.2M) called “Uninhibited” released in 1995 that was deemed good enough to be picked up and released on HBO after being edited to an ‘R’ rating.

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4JZ6 TIL that condition named face blindness leaves sufferers unable to recognize faces of people they already know and Brad Pitt said he suffers from it.
d8rLj TIL that hundreds of African-Americans in the Selma to Montgomery marches wore yarmulkes after learning that Jews wear them in the presence of God, believing that God was present in their march for freedom.
70pP TIL in 1959, a segregationist school board shuttered its district rather than allow black students; whites took school vouchers and attended a local private academy (which did not integrate until 1986)
OGGN6 TIL about Lochner Vs. NY in which the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
XxwE TIL that cargo ships leave the equivalent of contrails along their route that can be seen from space. Water molecules accumulate on pollutants coming from the exhaust of ships which essentially seeds clouds. These clouds are known as ship tracks.