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TIL Gene Roddenberry gave a list of “do nots” to the Next Generation writers which includes not writing about sorcery, psychic powers, mad scientists, and swords.

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xVYRk TIL some apartment complexes are requiring dog owners to submit their pets’ DNA in order to catch and fine tenants who do not pick up their dog’s poop
l7Om7 TIL Walt Disney won 4 Oscars at the 1953 Academy Awards; the most by an individual in a single year.
OBr7 TIL During hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s, many people suffered from “a compulsion to write endless strings of zeros” called Zero Stroke
Ypp9P Suppose two Chinese parents get on an Australian airplane and, while flying over U.S. territory, they have a baby on the plane. Can that baby be an American citizen?
N7yJE TIL that the 17th century Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacub espoused ideas about secularism, rationalist thought and gender equality almost a century before the philosophers of the enlightenment