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TIL it’s a common misconception that PG-13 films are only allowed one “F-bomb,” and that 2 or more make it R. This isn’t true, as a movie with multiple uses of the word can still be PG-13 if the board votes that way with a 2/3 majority. (See page 8, top)

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aeK9 TIL that in 1987, a prison inmate, Ronnie Lee Gardner, broke a glass partition and knocked out the lights in the prison visiting area to have sex with a woman who was visiting him. The other inmates cheered and barricaded the doors. Gardner later claimed breaking the glass was an accident.
Axgd TIL that sailors wore gold ear-rings because the value was enough to bury you in a foreign country.
eLxE TIL that the Zildjian cymbal company is one of the oldest companies in the world, started in 1623 in Constantinople, making cymbals for frightening the enemies of the Ottoman Empire.
Boly TIL that Prof. Benjamin has been arguing that highschool students should not be thought calculus, and should learn statistics instead. While calculus is very important for a limited subset of people, statistics is vital in everyone’s day-to-day lives.
e0y1b TIL of 'teen courts,' which are used to prosecute adolescents in which the jury is made up of teenagers in order to lower the number of repeat offenders