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TIL Breaking Bad’s Final Episode, “Felina,” get’s a 9.9 on IMDb. Second highest rating ever for a TV episode, only behind “Ozymandias,” also a Breaking Bad episode.

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7rJZr TIL after spending the best part of 60 years in prison, mob boss John Franzese was finally released in 2017 at the age of 100, at the time he was the oldest inmate in the US and the only centenarian in prison
AOKd TIL Hugh Hefner (Founder of Playboy) collects $1,896 per month in Social Security despite receiving $290,580 a month in income.
MeWVB TIL the anti-diabetic medication,metformin, is derived from French lilacs. In medieval times, French lilac was used to treat the symptoms of a condition we now know today as diabetes mellitus.
x670B TIL that Violet Jessop, a courageous ship's nurse from the 20th century, miraculously survived three disastrous shipwrecks: the Olympic in 1911, the Titanic in 1912, and the Britannic in 1916.
GYy51 TIL Tian Han, the man who wrote China's national anthem, died after two years of mistreatment and torture in a Chinese jail during the Cultural Revolution