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TIL Steven Spielberg helped create the PG-13 film rating
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TIL early movie projectors utilized primitive arc lights which were very bright but had a tendency to flicker, especially if they were not properly maintained. It is because of this flickering that movies came to be called "flicks".
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TIL that the world's most well-preserved mummy was found at the altitude of 6,600 in Argentina. She was a 15-year-old Incan girl who had been sacrificed to gods around 500 years ago.
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TIL that whenever German victories were announced on the radio in occupied Denmark, the Danish Resistance would cut into the broadcast and play “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess.
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TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
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TIL glyphosate in urban humans' urine in the west exceeds 5-20x the amount permitted in German drinking water