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TIL Vince Gilligan wrote the controversial plot twist in the film Hancock (2008) starring Will Smith. He shortly left to pursue writing in TV and led to the creation of Breaking Bad.

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9wwOm TIL that pretty much evry other country bases the beginning of Summer and Winter on the solstices. I’m Aussie and here summer always begins on December first; Winter always begins on June first. I used other sources to verify this as well; this one is just the best site where the point is most clear
nvLP TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.
Vyvk TIL Netflix is (almost) 20 years old
VMGjB TIL the Australian 1 and 2 cent coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1992. The recovered coins were melted down to make the bronze medals for the Sydney 2000 Olympics
Ojvg TIL Canada granted asylum to Denise Harvey, a U.S. Citizen who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for having sex with a 16 year old because it wouldn’t be a crime in Canada and the sentence was deemed cruel and unusual punishment