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TIL Marius Stan, 'Bogdan' from 'Breaking Bad', is a chemist in real life. He has a PhD in Chemistry, is a computational physicist and the Intelligent Materials Design Lead in the Argonne National Laboratory’s Applied Materials division.

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6wDJ TIL that Toyota had to pay $1.2 billion fine for safety negligence with unintended acceleration issues, despite a NASA report showing the issues were due to driver error.
XE9R6 TIL the combined wealth in the world is $360 trillion.
yVKrl TIL that there was a 1.5 Mbps cable internet service in the early 1980's that only cost $8-$10 per month, and went up to 6.4 Mbps