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TIL, Sunday’s Breaking Bad was dedicated to a teen who died of cancer. He turned down the chance to hear how it all ends saying he “wanted to find out along with everyone else”.

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rNBoW TIL of the earlier War In Vietnam which was a success for Western forces. Combined British, Japanese and French forces defeated Ho Chi Minh, with the well experienced British forces having particular success.
mDYy TIL President Johnson once grabbed Canadian Prime Minister Pearson by the lapels and shouted: “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug” after a disagreement about Vietnam war
781eZ TIL Vice President Andrew Johnson gave his inaugural address while drunk
OooOL TIL that Guam's jungles have as many as 40 times the amount of spiders as nearby islands due to a lack of forest birds.
b9WPE TIL Greek Folklore says kids born between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6) are considered doomed to become kallikantzaros, a kind of half-human, half-demon vampire - with talons that lives in the underworld and comes back to Earth to tear its family members to pieces during the Christmas holidays.