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TIL that the coordinates Walter White hid on lotto ticket (N 34, 59′, 20″, W 106, 36′, 52), point straight to Q studios in Albuquerque, where Breaking Bad was filmed.

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yQEXV TIL laminated safety glass was invented by chemist Édouard Bénédictus after a lab accident in 1903. A glass flask coated with the plastic cellulose nitrate was dropped, shattering but not breaking into pieces. In 1909 he filed a patent, after hearing of a car accident causing injury by glass debris.
6EvnQ TIL Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours, a world record. On the 11th day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing.
yQgjv TIL Ex Bassist of the all-female rock group 'The Runaways' won 87k on Jeopardy and is now an Attorney
mDO TIL Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks trash through pipes under the streets to a central disposal location–and has had it for 35 years.
EgK87 TIL the United States and "British North America" received fewer than 10% of the African slaves trafficked to the New World. The largest destinations were Portuguese America >38% (e.g. Brazil) and the British West Indies >18% (e.g. Jamaica).