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TIL that Gene Roddenberry's original script for the first "Star Trek" movie contained a scene in which James T. Kirk has a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ. Certain elements of this script did eventually show up in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"—but most did not.

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7rYoM TIL that eclipses are of extreme importance to historians, as they are one of the only ways to precisely date many historical events, thus allowing the timing of events around the eclipse to also be determined.
loAp5 TIL that Land of the Lost TV series had a number of respected sci-fi writers contribute scripts to the series, including Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, Norman Spinrad, and a number of people involved with Star Trek, such as D.C. Fontana, Walter Koenig, and David Gerrold.
8eL1P TIL when Nirvana's opening band, Calamity Jane, got booed off stage at a concert in Buenos Aires, Nirvana decided to teach the crowd a lesson. So before every song of their set, they'd play the intro to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" & then just stop before continuing on to play an obscure song of theirs
ZpD4p TIL on three occasions between 1922 and 1933, the Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola Company, which it declined on each occasion
w8EP TIL in Texas, the court can suspend your hunting license if you are 3 months behind on your child support payments