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TIL there’s an island in Japan populated with more stray cats than humans

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x60bk TIL that, in 1989, the short film Visions of Ecstasy became the only movie to have been refused certification by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) on the grounds of blasphemy
yVJOw TIL it’s been estimated that 99.9% of all species that are lived in the past are extinct.
NAPP TIL some Hiroshima survivors grew “black fingernails,” which were strange rod-shaped fingernails that contained active blood vessels and bled profusely when they broke off.
L81p TIL The film Predator was originally written in responese to Rocky movies after people joked he was running out of people to box and would have to fight an alien next
w651 TIL Carl Sagan’s anatomically correct naked man and woman were censored on the Voyager spacecraft Golden Record because critics found the nudity offensive.