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TIL that an opera inspired by the Breaking Bad episode, Ozymandias was made by New York composer Sun Jin Hong, and is a combination of Percy Shelly’s sonnet and the episode itself.

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GYaxG TIL that there was a Slavonic sect whose members had a widespread worship of Napoleon, believing that Napoleon is still alive and hiding in Irkutsk, Russia, gathering an army to return and conquer the world
W7YYd TIL that oyster farming dates back more than 2,000 years to the Romans and that one acre of an oyster farm can filter up to 72 million litres of water per day.
kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
p8Xpe TIL that as well as the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote a newspaper comic strip called "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz", in which the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and others visit cities of the United States.
jNmga TIL in 1990 a Peter Maxwell of California owned a manufacturing company, employed himself, had an accident on the job, hired 2 lawyers for the company and himself, sued himself, won 122k, wrote the 122k off, was then refuted and fined by the IRS, THEN later won his appeal in US Tax Court