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TIL The cast of Futurama made a full-length radio episode reunion.

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nepPB TIL That police officers involved in the search for buried victims of the 'Moors murders' would shove metal rods into the ground and sniff the end to see if it smelt of 'death'.
XE5NQ TIL after "Rocky IV," a joke circulated around Hollywood that Rocky had run out of earthly opponents and would have to fight an alien if a fifth film was made. That joke inspired the script for "Predator."
gMPE8 TIL in 1857, a congressman from New York killed the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia over the attorney’s affair with his wife. He claimed temporary insanity (thanks to his wife’s infidelity), the first time this defense was used in U.S. history. He was acquitted.
Pwaw TIL that when ships pass through Point Nemo in the southern Pacific Ocean, the closest other humans are in the International Space Station 400km up.
xxj0 TIL that ‘Mad Men’ understated its depiction of drinking, smoking, and sex in 1960s Manhattan. Advertising veteran Jerry Della Femina said that “Three-martini lunches were the norm … The only thing that saved us was that the clients and agencies that we were going back to drank as much as we did”.