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

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RWMw TIL of the great filter theory. Which suggests the reason we can’t find advanced civilizations in our galaxy. Is because there is some factor or process preventing them from arising or prospering.
7KZr TIL that actor Chuck Connors (“Old Yeller,” “Soylent Green,” “The Rifleman”) once played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and was also the first NBA player to shatter a backboard — in 1946
1k0D TIL- There is a Star Wars comic where Han Solo and Chewbacca crash into Earth after using Hyperspace blindly. Native American’s kill Han and his body is discovered by Indiana Jones 126 years later while searching for Bigfoot, which turns out to be Chewbacca.
yDg8 TIL Museums make you happier and less lonely, studies find
V8RD TIL In 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2 separate occasions it was discovered that women had been buried alive, after people at the cemetery heard screams coming from inside the earth.