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TIL There are TWO actors who have been killed by a Predator, an Alien and a Terminator : Lance Henriksen AND Bill Paxton

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99dm TIL Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were turf wars in Scotland in 1980 between rival criminal Organisations selling drugs and stolen goods in ice cream vans.
W7vP4 TIL about Jens Peter Westergaard, born in 1914 and the first non-emigrant Danish man to reach age 110+.
YN6P TIL Corinthian leather is a term coined by the advertising agency Bozell to describe the upholstery used in certain Chrysler luxury vehicles. The term suggests that the product has a relationship to or origination from Corinth, but the supplier was located outside Newark, New Jersey
R7wd8 TIL The FDA’s guidance documents for additives & plastic safety do not establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe the Agency’s current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations, unless specific regulatory or statutory requirements are cited.
VMr0m TIL about NASA TALs (Transoceanic Abort Landing sites) that were specially built all over the world, including in Gambia, Senegal and Morocco, that would be used in the event of an aborted Shuttle Launch