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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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l7MPB TIL that in the 1600s there was an English chef called Robert May who made pastry ships that featured cannons with real gunpowder, which, when lit for mock battle, caused the ships to explode in a cloud of smoke
Eo8p TIL that in 2009 a father revenge raped the man who had previously raped his son.
P1bkV TIL Billionaire Richard Branson started more than 100 businesses in total and failed at least 15 times
4moX TIL years of dumping trash into the ocean resulted in a “glass beach” in California of smooth sea glass. So many tourists began removing the glass, there is a move to replace it.
ORxg TIL Between 2005 and 2009, Americans’ retirement savings had shrunk by about $2.5 trillion. More than 8.8 million jobs were lost, and roughly 3 million homes had gone into foreclosure.