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TIL that Vince Gilligan almost didn’t go through with making Breaking Bad because he found out that Weeds was in development and had a similar premise. If he had known about Weeds earlier we wouldn’t have Breaking Bad.

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ErpP TIL if you’re born on an international flight, your place of birth is listed as ‘born at sea’ on your passport.
KnYJ TIL that Pope Francis has never used the internet, despite having nine different twitter accounts and more than 20 million followers
x6AV7 TIL British and American butchers have different names for the same cuts of beef.
nepkG TIL Former Manson Family member Barbara Hoyt, was poisoned by a hamburger with several doses of LSD in it. This was meant to prevent her from testifying in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. The plan backfired when she survived. After the attempt to silence her, her reticence disappeared.
W7RBY TIL In 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing “minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which…enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.” The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.