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TIL ‘Breaking Bad’ is in the Guinness book of world records as “the highest rated show of all time”.

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VM0Pk TIL that the Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave uprising.
Ood5R TIL until his death in 2020, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek displayed a C$49,000 bounced check on the wall of his house for his hosting duties on the 1981-82 Canadian-produced game show Pitfall, as a reminder of how his fellow Canadians did him dirty
KOPJJ TIL French astronomer and mathematician Urbain le Verrier used observational data from Uranus to deduce the position of an unknown planet, which German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle used to find Neptune, within one hour of searching and within one degree of Verrier's prediction (1846).
QZQp TIL a Paralyzed Man Recently Walked After Having His Nose Cells Transplanted Into His Spinal Cord
b6n80 TIL of Dr Jack Matthews who was not only a doctor, a top level rugby player and a glider pilot during WW2, but he also fought Rocky Marciano to a draw in amateur boxing.