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TIL the US-Canada Border is both the longest and least militarized border in the world

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5Y5Dr TIL Michael Jackson’s estate continues to allocate 20% of his posthumous earnings to various charities, as specified in his will.
d8Q49 TIL in 1963 Soviet Engineers Detonated a Nuclear bomb to Put Out a Gas Well Fire
e0wgL TIL Steven Spielberg is responsible for the PG-13 rating. He suggested it after parents complained about the PG rating given to 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Three months later, 'Red Dawn' became the first release rated PG-13
OG5bY TIL the ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos realized the Solar System was heliocentric 2000 years before Copernicus, but was mostly ignored.
m1lOo TIL that Willem Dafoe starred as Jesus in a religious epic, which included supporting performances by Harvey Keitel and David Bowie and was banned from Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina for several years.