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TIL A Teenage Cancer Patient Changed The Ending Of ‘Breaking Bad’.

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YpZZZ TIL that a "20% chance of rain" can mean that there is a 20% chance that rain will occur in a given area, or that there is a 100% chance that rain will occur in 20% of a given area, or anything in between.
oxAR TIL that red bell peppers are simply fully ripened green bell peppers. Yellow bell peppers, however, are different cultivars.
M7j6b TIL Roger Babson founded the "Gravity Research Foundation" in 1948 an effort to fight gravity, after the childhood drowning of his sister who couldn't overcome gravity. Post-death it became a foundation for understanding, where notable researchers including Stephen Hawking won their essay prizes.
0dprM TIL what grep stands for (“Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print it”)
jrXN TIL the Soviets gave the offspring of one of their space dogs to JFK’s daughter Caroline during the Cold War in 1961, which went on to have pups with an American dog that JFK jokingly dubbed ‘pupniks’