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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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p0Gp TIL during the Cold War, due to high levels of activity, the Soviets thought the building in the courtyard at the center of the Pentagon was a Top Secret meeting location. Little did they know, the building was a hot dog stand
QJMN9 TIL Asian elephants are more closely related to Wooly Mammoths than they are to African Elephants
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b9l6Z TIL of the Bolton Strid, a small creek in Yorkshire, England, which while appearing harmless has swallowed every person to enter it. This is due to a mass of undercurrents and submerged caves undetectable from the surface.