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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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6985m TIL that if all the world’s bacteria were laid end-to-end, they would reach 10 billion light-years in length. However, at 75 times thinner than a human hair, it would still be invisible to the naked eye. The length could wrap the Milky Way more than 20,000 times, creating a 2cm wide visible ribbon.
wQk8 TIL Christopher Nolan ‘begged’ David Bowie to act as Nikola Tesla in his movie 'The Prestige’
X0vvX TIL that late actor Michael Clarke Duncan was assigned to protect Notorious B.I.G. on the night he was killed, but Duncan switched assignments at the last minute. The death caused Duncan to quit working as a bodyguard and pursue acting full-time.
1aZrr TIL of "Münchhausen trilemma" which expresses that absolute truth is impossible because someone can just ask "Why?" forever which leads to 1 of 3 options; the proof and theory end up the same, infinite regression of the proof, or one party simply gives up and accepts a truth without actual proof
9DjM TIL Almost every year the players of the Eritrean National Football team run away en masse when out of the country for games. In the past 6 years more than 50 players have fled. Despite this, Eritrean soccer officials continue to rebuild the team every year.