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TIL that in season 4 episode 2 of Breaking Bad, Badger explains that Venezia’s Pizza doesn’t slice their pizzas “to pass the savings on to you.” This was a response to fan confusion over why the Venezia’s pizza in season 3 episode 2 was not sliced

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QaOd TIL in Stephen King’s “Misery,” a story about a writer kidnapped by a crazed fan named Annie, Annie represents cocaine, as the story was written at the height of King’s cocaine addiction
wAAE TIL that chinese people used to think pandas were monsters.
LQolp TIL that a season of Super Sentai (The show that Power Rangers take fight footage from) ended with a ranger getting killed by a mugger.
mZrY TIL that in 2006, teenage fans of a popular Portuguese soap opera began experiencing the physical symptoms of a fictional disease that was introduced to the characters on the show. The “outbreak” spread to over 300 people. It is considered an example of mass hysteria.
mxJjv TIL that Disneyland edited out every cigarette they could find in Walt Disney’s photographs, causing his unusually iconic two finger pointing gesture. Tom Hanks even used it in Saving Mr. Banks as do Disney employees now.