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TIL Anthony Hopkins wrote a fan letter to Bryan Cranston after finishing Breaking Bad, praising his performance as the best acting he’s ever seen.

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OG9p1 TIL that after getting divorced, Giancarlo Esposito had to declare bankruptcy, and he considered suicide by contract killing to provide insurance money for his children. He was then cast as Gus Fring on Breaking Bad.
v1de8 TIL there was a Tennessee Republican politician who changed his middle name to 'Low tax' so that it would appear on the ballot box, murdered his political opponent in a later senatorial race, was sentenced to life and died in prison.
epPLE TIL that Nintendo's first video game console was the Color TV Game in 1977, which Mitsubishi helped make. The console was not sold outside of Japan, and had simple variations of Pong on it.
Y71B7 TIL that during WW2, the US gov't banned sliced bread (so that the hardened steel normally used in bread slicing machines could be put towards the war effort). After a huge public outcry, the ban was lifted after only seven weeks.
joep TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch doesn’t like the term ‘Cumberbitches’. He said: “I won’t allow you to be my bitches. I think it sets feminism back so many notches. You are… Cumberpeople.”