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TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie "Genesis II" identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.

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6Emm TIL The Mormon Church, through its political organization, the Kingdom of God, plans on gaining a political stronghold in the U.S. government. The goal is to “bring the United States Government under the rule of the priesthood.”
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