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TIL that China has banned time travel in TV, saying that it “disrespects history”.

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ne1XW TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
a8JMN TIL that in alabama, a sherif can keep the extra money they “save” from prison meals. One sherif pocketed $200,000 worth of meal money after shrinking meal portions.
yn5e TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus was pregnant twice during the production of Seinfeld and hid her belly with furniture and laundry baskets
1aXrV TIL that in 1962, developers planned to dredge 8,000 acres of Biscayne Bay in Florida to build hotels and a seaport. When a fisherman, Lloyd Miller, campaigned against the plans, those supporting the development poisoned his dog and tried to have him fired from his job at Pan American Airways.
BrGrk TIL that pure asbestos was used as fake snow in the Wizard of Oz. Here it is raining down on Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion.