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

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a8PXb TIL that under the American Homestead Act of 1862, single women over 21 or any man over 21 could claim 160 acres of land by living on it for five years, building a home, making improvements, and paying a small fee. Married women were not allowed.
oBDQY TIL Back in 1985 Nintendo sued Magnavox, the company who made the first video game console, and tried to invalidate their patents
69N1Y TIL that Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl never recorded the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" together in the studio. The record's producer, Steve Lillywhite, asked MacColl, his wife, to record the woman's part as a guide for someone else, but MacGowan liked it and rerecorded his part to match hers.
PvWw TIL about Whataburger, and What-a-burger. They’re both different restaurants that opened on the same day without the knowledge of each others existence.
jNOeN TIL that a bottlenose dolphin could swim up to 22 miles per hour(35 kilometers per hour) and when they're asleep, they keep half of its brain awake in order to keep breathing