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TIL That 1500 languages are stored on a disk the size of a nickel. These languages are etched in 13000 pages which you can read after 1000x magnification.

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4WLJ TIL that Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to make meth by DEA chemists, in a very detailed manner for Breaking Bad, as they wanted it to look real. They had to cut out scenes of cooking so that people can’t replicate.
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7rDOO TIL Sir Henry Irving was the first actor to receive a knighthood — also, his larger-than-life attitude was so frightening his assistant, Bram Stoker, based the character Count Dracula on him
4XjEg TIL French Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the US Navy, and the only non-American carrier equipped with a catapult launch system.