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TV documentaries over-using the historical present tense: "When the printing press is invented, everything changes". Producers get interview subjects to us it whenever they can to make their stories seem more immediate, but it's so unnatural that people often mess it up and slide into past tense within a single sentence: "When I see smoke coming out of the engines, I started to shout..."