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TIL that China banned Back to the Future for "time travel."

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grP5b TIL Colin Farrell was accused of murder in Australia. The thing that got him off was that his friend had a diary entry saying that they done ecstasy together that day - on the opposite side of the city from where the murder took place
4oR5 TIL that the first automated telephone exchange was created by Almon B. Strowger, because a competitor’s wife was the operator of his local exchange, and therefore redirected calls meant for him to her husband’s business instead.
e0ZK5 TIL that Harry Houdini’s first public performance was at age 9 as a trapeze artist, billing himself as “Ehrich Prince of the Air“
W7JEB TIL that Mr. T cereal has appeared in the films Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Boomerang, Bumblebee, and Border Radio. It also has appeared in Stranger Things and was part of a plot point in a Rules Of Engagement episode.
e0X0n TIL of John, a teen who was the first person in the UK charged with inciting his own murder. He found his real-life friend Mark in a chatroom and convinced Mark to kill him (John) via a web of fictional characters. Mark stabbed John, convinced the CIA had ordered him to.