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TIL child actor Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer was killed by a single gunshot wound to the groin while fighting over $50.

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R649 TIL Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was able to view his obituary before he died due to a news-outlet mishap. Due to all the horrible things he read about himself, including being called “the merchant of death”, he decided to dedicate his fortune to the creation of the Nobel Prize.
4WLJ TIL that Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to make meth by DEA chemists, in a very detailed manner for Breaking Bad, as they wanted it to look real. They had to cut out scenes of cooking so that people can’t replicate.
X0GpQ TIL the world record for longest stationary manual on a skateboard is 2 hours 55 minutes 22 seconds, achieved by Brandon González in 2017. He trained for six years before his successful record-breaking attempt.
GY6Kj TIL most of the deaths caused by tropical cyclones are not caused by the wind but by the storm surge.
y0V TIL that the U.S. criminal justice system employs more people than America’s two largest private employers - Wal-Mart and McDonald’s - combined, and has proportionally almost 6 times more blacks locked up than South Africa did at the height of Apartheid