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TIL Football referee with over 2,000 games under his belt breaks longest career record

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5VlVk TIL that HBO ordered a 2014 drama series about a “dynastic New York media family and its mogul patriarch” from the creator of Deadwood. It was not picked up.
9YvG6 TIL that to properly write adjectives in order, you would list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin, and material.
x6o1g TIL 'Bogdan' (car wash owner from Breaking Bad) is an actual scientist in real life, having a Ph.D in Chemistry, and at one point he served in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the United States. At first his kids wanted ot be extras in Breaking Bad, but the producers 'liked his look', so cast him.
5YeeB TIL Andrew Carnegie gave away more than 90% of his wealth, with much of it going to found 2509 public libraries at an inflation-adjusted cost of more than $1.3 billion
R7Xyl TIL Baby Doe Tabor went from rags to riches to rags again after her husband lost his fortune the panic of 1893. She lived in a mining tool shed for 30 years in Leadville Colorado and was found frozen to death at the age of 81.