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TIL that Giancarlo Esposito, who portrayed the villain Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad, has such a poor Spanish accent that some native speakers have described it as 'Nails on chalkboard'.

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7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.
8eJGP TIL Britain used an estimated 22,000 servicemen as ‘guinea pigs’ in their nuclear bomb drops in the 50s & 60s
kOVv7 TIL that slavery is still legal in the United States, as punishment for a crime.
kOrOg TIL that between 2014 and 2016 an Australian electrician bunked off work roughly 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet as a Faraday cage to block an electronic tracker that would have pinpointed his location.
jNQ0X TIL Alexander the Great admired Achilles and that the city of Troy was probably a part of modern day Turkey