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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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