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TIL there is a genre of movies called Bromantic comedies and include Harold and Kumar, The Hangover, and Pineapple Express.

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e05Yg TIL about the Max Headroom signal hijacking of 1987.
0doAR TIL That BT Research (AKA BT Labs), the research division of British Telecom had over 10,000 patents by around the year 2000. Including ones for Prestel the forerunner of the Internet in 1979.
Qo7M TIL that the last words of Peter Kürten, a serial killer executed by guillotine, said “Tell me—after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
7aGX TIL the NYPD operates in 11 foreign cities, including London, Lyons, Hamburg, Tel Aviv and Toronto
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA