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TIL the GPS coordinates that lead to Walt’s buried money in BREAKING BAD actually, in real life lead to ABQ studios in Albuquerque NM where BREAKING BAD was filmed. They wanted to be sure the coordinates didn’t lead to somewhere people might go think there could be buried treasure.

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