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TIL Bryan Cranston earned $225,000 per episode of Breaking Bad

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kOygd TIL The Cards Against Humanity Company bought an island in Maine called Hawaii 2 and anyone can go visit the island.
VBmKp TIL composer Rudolph Karel composed operas by writing on toilet paper while imprisoned during WWII
A41w TIL of the Jetsons/Flintstones theory. The theory states that The Jetsons live in the past while The Flintstones live in the future. Because of nuclear fallout people were forced to build a city in the sky, after the Earth recovered years later people reclaimed it, resulting in the Flintstones time
xVabo TIL fire can't burn in a zero-gravity environment; without gravity to create convection, the combustion byproducts become trapped around the flame and quickly deprive it of oxygen, snuffing it
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.