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TIL Kirk Blocker aka Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine Nine is the son of actor Dan Blocker aka Hoss on Bonanza

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Y7aGG TiL the Nirvana song "About a Girl" was written by Kurt Cobain about his then girlfriend Tracy Marander, partially inspired by their fights over Cobain's refusal to do household chores. She didn't know the song was about her until reading a biography on the band.
Br0bk TIL during the meltdown, Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster
ADALB TIL In the 1830's the average household drank 7 gallons of ethanol per year. That's 3.4 bottles of Jim Beam per week.
dDVxZ TIL Type A personality theory had early association with the smoking industry, who funded researchers in hopes of proving it was personality that lead to heart disease, not tobacco use.
pYogG TIL that Alfred Hitchcock had cameo appearances in nearly all of his films