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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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YpPxG TIL Minnesota Has Been Refusing to Return a Captured Confederate Flag to Virginia for More Than a Century
X0QRX TIL of Albert Gunter, a bus driver during the Great Smog of London 1952. Not realising Tower Bridge was raising, he made a spit second decision to jump the 6ft gap in his 12,000kg double decker bus at 12mph. He was awarded £5 (£245 current value) and a day off for his bravery.
WobX TIL Jeanne Calment met van Gogh at the age of ten, started fencing at the age of 85, was bicycling at the age of 100 and died 122 years old. She also smoked for 96 years and is quoted saying: “I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.”
WEN4 TIL Pubic lice are disappearing because of bikini waxes
lovpB TIL of the slow movement, which advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace, and "doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible." It began with a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986. "It’s about quality over quantity in everything."