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TIL the 2008 writers’ strike resulted in the first season of Breaking Bad being two episodes shorter and prevented the killing off of Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), who had originally been planned for elimination during the first season.

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8DX8 TIL a no-beef diet is not much worse for the environment than a vegetarian diet
neo5W TIL about the Winchester Mansion, a 161-room California monstrosity built by widower Sarah Winchester, who's husband had invented the Winchester rifle. She believed that spirits of those killed by his rifles were haunting her; so she added rooms, hallways, and passages to nowhere to appease them.
d8Mp7 TIL the Norse gods eventually got sick of Loki’s pranks, tied him up with the entrails of his kids, and had a snake drip poison in his face for 10,000 years
Eve7 TIL The Ka-50 helicopter has a ejection seat. Before the rocket in the seat deploys, the rotor blades are blown away by explosives in the rotor disc.
0Qlp TIL that President Andrew Jackson once killed a man in a duel over his wife’s honor