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TIL Vince Gilligan offered a terminally ill teenager, Kevin Cordasco, the opportunity to read the final Breaking Bad scripts, in case the cancer were to take his life before the series finale aired.

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QJoLp TIL In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the fighter Min Min would have had the opposite buttons used for her fists, but this was changed during development.
QjRL TIL a British girl ate only McDonald’s chicken nuggets for 15 years. She eventually collapsed and was hospitalized at the age of 17.
rNKo1 TIL the 5th gen Chevrolet Camaro, released in 2010, was developed by Holden, an Australian car manufacturer owned by GM a the time. The current Camaro is still built on a modified version of the GM Zeta platform created by Holden.
6EdAY TIL in 2015 a Jeopardy contestant answered the final jeopardy question with "what is the ballad of TURD FERGUSON." Prompting Alex Trebek to say "Turd Ferguson," a reference to the popular SNL Norm MacDonald skit.
WPP9 TIL that the FBI ran COINTELPRO, an illegal series of projects operated to suppress “subversive” movements like civil rights (including MLK) or growing third parties. These targets faced tricks like psychological warfare, killings (together with police departments), and slander through newspapers.