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TIL most Little Rascals episodes from the 1930s were heavily edited in the 1970s to remove jokes about race, women, disabilities, children, the elderly, and violence.

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XN7E TIL that Serbo-Croatian is a language comprising of four mutually intelligible variants and is the official language of 5 countries. It has 5 different names (not related to the countries) and can be written in both Latin and Cryllic script.
EeYx TIL: despite widely being considered a “heavy” beer, Guinness has less calories and alcohol than Budweiser.
kOnnm TIL that Lucy Lawless is fascinated by the criminal justice system, and goes to court on her days off to sit in the witness gallery and observe trials in progress.
e0L9g TIL Scientists have found out what the air was like millions of years ago by using air bubbles in ice.
ner4W TIL Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has trained with a former Special Forces Army reservist twice a week since 1999 after being diagnosed with colon cancer. She was able to complete 20 full push-ups in a session before her 80th birthday.