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TIL Samoa skipped December 31, 2011

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NXxyE 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
5VLZD TIL of the Tree of 40 Fruit, the result of a project that uses grafting to produce a tree that grows forty types of stone fruit, including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds.
r5Px TIL Jackie Kennedy despised Dr. Martin Luther King for allegedly showing up to JFK’s funeral drunk.
jNYPv TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the head of a whopping 16 states.
abp9 TIL that the average age of the NASA engineers who put humans on the Moon was 28 years old. This means many of them were teenagers when Kennedy challenged America to go to the Moon.