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TIL that in Blade Runner(1982) The CEO of the Tyrell Corporation was mentor to Peter Weyland, the CEO of the Weyland Corporation from the Alien franchise.

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MemB8 TIL Domino's pizza had offered a guaranteed 30 minute delivery time, or the pizza was free. This is how the pizza chain grew quickly. After many years, the drivers were sued for accidents. and the company ended that deal. I had heard that a driver hit a kid... but I guess that isn't true.
5vkQ TIL that Sigmund Freud believed cocaine was a cure for many mental and physical problems.
yVbLa TIL that Able Archer 83 was a war exercise conducted by NATO that panicked the Soviets into thinking they were really being attacked and so nearly launched a nuclear retaliation in response; it is now considered to be the nearest that mankind went into nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis
wyKJ TIL bestiality porn is legal to own in all 50 states, legal to film in 44, and legal to perform in 12.
x6Xj0 TIL Ordinary South Korean citizens could not get a passport and travel abroad until 1989, right after the end of dictatorship. Until 1992, South Koreans who wanted to travel abroad still had to go through anti-communist education