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TIL John Ross Bowie, who played the reoccurring role of Kripke, on "The Big Bang Theory" also is a film critic, who wrote a whole book on the movie "Heathers".

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7Enr TIL that Queen guitarist Brian May developed hepatitis from a tainted needle in 1974, almost forcing him to have his arm amputated. He eventually regained his health in time to help his bandmates finish the album which contained their first megahit, “Killer Queen”.
N7e58 TIL Despite the term 'blood donation', the blood market is actually a multi billion dollar industry and blood given for free by donors is then sold on the open market for profit for as much as $600 per pint, a cost passed down to patients.
75Vr TIL Vernors is actually the oldest soda still being sold. It predates Dr. Pepper by 19 years.
GAn71 TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.
0vXM TIL in 2000, Coca-Cola ran a secret campaign to teach waiters how to use “suggestive selling techniques” to offer an onslaught of alternative beverages when diners asked for water