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TIL Steven Spielberg helped create the PG-13 film rating

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wLvR8 TIL "area codes" for telephone numbers were originally called "STD codes"
16DE4 TIL the Martini Bianco vermouth mixer drink just filtered white wine flavored with various Alpine herbs and sweetened with beet sugar.
xEM7 TIL in Korea, in lieu of monthly rent, a “Jeonse” agreement is where the renter pays a percentage of the market value of a property up front, the landlord invests it, and at the end of the lease, the renter is returned 100% of their investment. The landlord earns interest on investments this way.
Z8eeQ TIL of Horace Fletcher, "the Great Masticator", who argued that food should be chewed to a liquid before swallowing. He claimed great health benefits from this, including beating college athletes in strength and endurance at the age of 58
OoM41 TIL that tigers grow to be 150 times their birth weight by the time they’re adults compared to about 15 times for (most healthy) humans.