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TIL: In China, it’s illegal to use a wordplay or a pun in advertising or on television.

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mxmM TIL Sugar Ray Robinson killed a man in the ring. The man he killed was saving up money to buy his mother a house. As a result, Robinson gave the earnings of his following four fights to that man’s mother.
GR9j TIL: Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left stranded on a deserted island, but survived for over 4 years, partly by using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night.
vLDr TIL the man who discovered Pluto had his ashes placed inside the New Horizons space craft that just passed Pluto
pKve TIL flowers evolved after mammals.
xQG0 TIL that Star Wars is mostly unknown in China. Few saw Episodes 4-6 in theaters; Episodes 1-3 are better known. Disney had to educate fans about the franchise when promoting The Force Awakens. “Marvel characters are the American action heroes to a whole generation of millions of Chinese”, instead.