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TIL savewalterwhite.com from Breaking Bad is a real website. (x-post from r/breakingbad)

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9wKQM TIL about the Lost Apple Project, a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. There were approximately 17k varieties of apples in the US, but only about 4.5k are known to exist today
WagB TIL of Chen Si: A Chinese man who since 2003 has dedicated every weekend to patrolling the Nanjing Bridge to help those about to commit suicide. He is credited with stopping over 300 suicides.
eVQ4 TIL During Operation Desert Storm there were nine American M1 Abrams tanks destroyed. All nine were destroyed by Americans
78pOL TIL, Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
VMvpm TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory did not have its origin in a Ray Bradbury short story