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TIL China banned Back to the Future because it contained time travel.

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E1GNX TIL that when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits causing a distinctive scent when they return to the station. The smell is so unusual that NASA reached out to a top fragrance maker to re-create the odor for its training simulations.
kJW5B TIL passenger train car windows are subjected to ballistic testing involving a .22 fired at the window pannels
oRZ0E TIL: British-based firm Reckitt Benckiser admitted in 2016 that it sold a humidifier disinfectant that killed about 100 people in South Korea. They withdrew their product after South Korean authorities suggested a link between chemicals to sterilise humidifiers and lung conditions in 2011.
KYyPB TIL that, as a gas giant, Saturn doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft couldn't land on Saturn, it wouldn’t be able to fly through it. The extreme pressures and temperatures would vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
XEQK8 TIL: For some people, recognizing faces is an impossibility due the neurological disorder known as prosopagnosia (also called face blindness). For them, loved ones can appear to be strangers.