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TIL that China banned Back to the Future for "time travel."
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TIL the organisers of the 2012 London Olympics contacted The Whos manager Bill Curbishley to see if drummer Keith Moon was available to play at the opening ceremony, despite Moon being dead for 34 years at the time.
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TIL a “Yellow Bellied Sapsucker” is a woodpecker not a western insult.
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TIL that it's impossible to program truly random sequences, due to all software being completely deterministic, which results in all pseudorandom sequences ultimately being recursive
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TIL the prank known in the US as "ding dong ditch" is known in England as "knock down ginger"
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TIL the term care package comes from an acronym; CARE, meaning the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe which sent packages of emergency supplies to European communities following WWII