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TIL the 1964 song “Beans in my ears” was banned from radio play in several cities because of a sudden spike in doctor’s reports of children putting…beans in their ears

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QNNW9 TIL Marty McFly's return trip to 1985 in Back to the Future was originally planned to occur at a nuclear test site explosion. Producers opted not to use the idea due to being too expensive to produce.
xVjWo TIL the Chinese gov. has been sending seeds to space to promote plant mutations for various crops. Good mutations are used to improve crops back on earth. The method has produced giant eggplants, half-meter long cucumbers, and peppers with improved yields and reduced seeds.
l75rG TIL that before 1933 King Kong film came out, a novel based on the screenplay was released as part of the advertising campaign, which is opposite of more common route of films that start as novels before being adapted into a screenplay
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XERQ TIL that the entire universe could be a hologram.