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TIL that China bans depictions of time travel in films and TV

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R5mEj TIL that the theme tune for the show Barney Miller inspired the legendary bassist Cliff Burton to take up the bass guitar
yRpM TIL engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found that when the two halves met their elevations differed by 54 cm. Germany bases sea level on the North Sea, and Switzerland by the Mediterranean; someone messed up the correction, doubling it instead of cancelling it out.
KYQ8B TIL Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother born in 1991.
4Maw TIL During the Second World War, Pablo Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. During one search of his apartment, a German officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. “Did you do that?” the German asked Picasso. To which he replied “No, you did”.
7V0x TIL: That a man in the 60’s starved himself for a year under medical supervision and survived. He lost 275 lbs!