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TIL that Breaking Bad has a shot-for-shot Spanish remake titled "Metástasis" featuring Walter Blanco, a struggling high school chemistry teacher in Bogotá, Colombia, who teams up with his previous student José to cook methamphetamine.

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pJ7p TIL “the annual savings on enforcement and incarceration costs from the legalization of drugs would amount to roughly $41.3 billion, with $25.7 billion being saved among the states and over $15.6 billion accrued for the federal government.”
Br9Ak TIL Victoria Coren Mitchell's fear-of-flying counsellor was killed in a plane crash
awZkM TIL of Nicholas Vedeer who was the last surviving revolutionary war soldier in New York State when he died in 1862. He was photographed in his uniform sometime before his death giving an extraordinary picture of an actual American Patriot.
N78nJ TIL of the ancient Greek letter "digamma" (or "wau") that made a "w" sound. It used to begin, for example, the word "oinos" ("woinos"), which is Greek for "wine."
d8b6r TIL the Stephen King book, The Tommyknockers, was loosely based on a creature from the folklore of Cornish miners. To some, knockers were malevolent spirits who knocked on supports to cause a cave-in. To others, the knocking a way of warning the miners that a collapse was imminent.