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TIL Band of Brothers premiered September 9, 2001

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Egea0 TIL fries are not french, but belgian
krKg TIL An 18-year-old man tried to eat his underwear in the hope that the cotton fabric would absorb alcohol before he took a breathalyzer test.
J1OMm TIL There is no patent for the chicken nugget. The process to make the processed poultry product was invented by Robert C. Baker, a food sciences professor at Cornell University who published papers pertaining to possible poultry recipes in the 1950s.
VB7A4 TIL about "parallel construction" in the US: a law enforcement process of creating a parallel basis for investigation, usually in order conceal that evidence was acquired in violation of the Fourth Amendment (e.g. illegal surveillance)
mxxvE TIL Dean Norris, the actor who played Hank in Breaking Bad, was also in the original Total Recall (1990). He played Tony, the butt-faced mutant friend of 3 boob girl.