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TIL China banned Time Travel films due to it being disrespectful of history or implying the idea of changing reality.

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QJjr9 TIL that bullshit jobs are jobs - such as manufactured middle-management positions - which even the person doing it can’t really justify its existence, but have to pretend that there’s some reason for it to exist.
9YnZp TIL: Knack managed to initially outsell Super Mario 3D World in the UK.
VMj7D TIL that a 47-year-old woman called Tammy Sexton, in Birmingham, Alabama was shot in the head by her husband with a .380-caliber handgun and not only did she survive, she managed to make herself a cup of tea and offered one to a police officer.
5YMgk TIL Isaac Singer, of Singer Sewing Machine fame, had more than two-dozen children with a variety of wives and mistresses. Several relationships overlapped and a few of his children were born in the same year.
766M TIL soda is fizzier in cans (vs plastic bottles) because CO2 cannot escape an aluminium can. CO2 escapes sealed PET bottles quite readily.