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TIL in 1980, Kevin Peter Hall starred in the movie Without Warning, where he plays an alien that comes to Earth to hunt humans for sport. Seven years later, Hall would also play the Predator.

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MVPa TIL that the word ACME commonly found in Looney Tunes shows stands for “A Company (that) Makes Everything”
rEye TIL “freeway” Rick Ross was a cocaine kingpin in 1980’s Los Angeles, at one point making 2-3 million dollars a week. The kicker? He was illiterate and his cocaine supplier was the CIA, who sold cocaine to illegally finance the Nicaraguan Contras.
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