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TIL the director of the film adaptation of The Time Machine (2002) was H.G. Wells' great-grandson. He was also a consultant for the future scenes in Back to the Future II.

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5VMdp TIL Aboriginal cannibals preferred to eat Chinese people, because Europeans tasted too salty. They also disliked consumers of opium.
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