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TIL that the first scripted inter-racial kiss on US television (Star Trek) was meant to be filmed with and without the kiss. Shatner and Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the shot without the kiss so that they could not be used.

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R5lD8 TIL Philip K. Dick — who wrote the novels/stories behind Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, Total Recall, etc. — died just 4 months before the release of Blade Runner.
EgZRd TIL Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together Called the Mynah Birds.
b9pvZ TIL The Women's Titanic Memorial Assosciation erected a statue in Washington D.C. to honor the men who gave their lives on the Titanic so that women and children could live
nWNxY TIL there was a satirical magazine in Nazi Germany known as "Die Brennessel" (Stinging Nettle) which used humor to promote Nazism and antisemitism. Originally the best-selling satirical magazine in the country, it folded in 1938 after failing to entertain it's readers.
D1lPv TIL about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, who worked at the French embassy as an accountant in Beijing in 1964 who had a 20-year affair with a Chinese actress, who turned out to be both a spy and a man in drag. The diplomat claims not to have known that his lover was actually a man.