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

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9Ykwp 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.
W70ad TIL a “Yellow Bellied Sapsucker” is a woodpecker not a western insult.
oB0ME 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
m1mkP TIL the prank known in the US as "ding dong ditch" is known in England as "knock down ginger"
8e8WL 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