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TIL that the creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, had planned to kill off Jesse or Hank in the first season, as a "ballsy" moment to end the season on, but a screenwriters strike limited the production from nine to seven episodes and the death was eliminated with the limited episode count

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awZYb TIL In the Olympics if there is a tie, contestants can share the gold medal. There has been 120 instances of medal sharing since the modern Summer Olympics began in Athens but this is the first time in history where rival athletes from different countries asked about the possibility themselves
AA64 TIL Up until the 1960’s, poor Swiss children could be auctioned to farmers using them as a source of cheap labour
Z8GA4 TIL that your body odors changes when you've been successfully infected by plasmodium (Malaria). Thereby making you a better target for mosquitos and spreading the disease.
p89aG TIL jellyfish have been attacking nuclear power plants in Japan and India since the 1960s, with up to 150 tons per day removed from the cooling system of just 1 power plant. In India, workers removed over 4mil jellyfish from screens over the entrances to cooling pipes. That’s 80 tons of jellyfish.
N7eWM TIL that Domino's Pizza stopped their "30 minutes or it's free" pledge after a major lawsuit that made it appear as if their drivers were reckless.