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TIL Gina Torres (Dozer’s widow in Matrix Reloaded and of course Zoe from Firefly) is a classically-and-jazz-trained mezzo-soprano and speaks fluid Spanish

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6EjLm TIL if you combine the titles of Breaking Bad S2's 1st, 4th, 9th and 13th episodes you get "Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ," which alludes to the plane crash at the end of the season. These episodes all include an opening teaser featuring a scorched pink teddy bear floating in Walt's pool.
VL78 TIL The Honda Prelude was the first mass produced car that featured a mechanical 4-wheel steering system. In it’s debut year it beat every car in the slalom test, including Porsche and Ferrari.
awVab TIL About Elizabeth Báthory, A Hungarian noble who was alleged to have tortured and murdered 650 young girls between 1585 and 1609 and bathed in their blood. She is deemed the most prolific murderer of all time.
7D5r TIL The element ‘Cobalt’ gets it’s name from the German 'kobold’ which means 'goblin’. Miners found cobalt veins near their silver, and blamed this strange and dangerous metal on goblins, and thus named it after them.
4xrw TIL the brewery in Belgium that created and produces Stella Artois pilsner beer was founded in 1366 as the “Den Hoorn” brewery in Leuven and turns 650 this year. It became “Brouwerij Artois” in 1717. The horn logo is recognized as the oldest known continuously-used company logo in the world.