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TIL in the Breaking Bad episode ‘Ozymandias’, Holly crying out 'Mama’ was not scripted. The baby playing Holly saw her mother standing off-camera and Bryan Cranston played along with it.

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aRJy TIL in 1949 BB King re-entered a burning music hall to save his favorite $30 Gibson guitar. King later learned the fire was started when two men knocked over a burning barrel of kerosene while fighting over a woman named Lucille. King has named every guitar he’s owned Lucille as a reminder.

bNKp TIL Dave Chapelle was offered the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump, however turned down the part as he considered it “demeaning” and thought the movie would flop.

awBKN TIL that during WW2 there was a saying that "It's more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe, than for Brazil to go the front and fight", so when Brazil joined the war, their troops became known as "Cobras Fumantes", or "the Smoking Snakes".

MmdA TIL that Ashton Kutcher had a girlfriend who was murdered by a serial killer while they were dating.

47vb TIL that the influential American poet Walt Whitman’s collection of poetry,“Leaves of Grass”, was so controversial when first published in 1855 for its reference to open sexuality & homosexuality, that a major literary weekly publication recommended in its review that Whitman kill himself.