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TIL Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to cook crystal meth in preparation for his role on the show

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VMnWG TIL that North Korea's frog population mostly disappeared in 1995. It is believed that they were eaten by starving villagers at the start of the Great Famine.
QN0KX TIL a New Zealander learned all the french words for scrabble and became the French Scrabble Champion. He still doesn't speak any french.
xV9Nk TIL that an 18-year-old girl called Rae Heim ran across America almost entirely barefoot. She only wore shoes on some hard terrain. She ran 3,437.5 miles in 8 months and raised more than $10,000 for charity. She started running barefoot at 16 after breaking a big toe, and kept it up after it healed.
R78w4 When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.
R5vW8 TIL The geometric foundational work for Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915 was laid by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann some 60 years earlier