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TIL that the 196 fastest 50 metre (short course) freestyle times have all come in the last 16 years

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ne6YG TIL TV series Breaking Bad inspired a series of real life crimes. The crimes include a meth dealer dying their drugs blue, a murderer disposing of a body with sulfuric acid, a 55-year-old drug dealer using the name of "Walter White", and a school teacher with cancer making meth to pay for treatment.
VBQjk TIL - Saint Catharine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery, along with the oldest continuously operating library in the world
78gQZ TIL Elvis Presley's manager made money by selling "I Hate Elvis" badges to those who were not purchasing Elvis merchandise.
xaXb TIL While at USC, Will Ferrell would dress up as a janitor and enter his friend’s classes, pretending to clean.
NXBy6 TIL at the height of the Beanie Baby craze in the 1990s Lender's Bagels made a knockoff "Beanie Baby Bagel".