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Today I learned that Michael Bowen (who played Jack, and killed Hank from Breaking Bad) and Dean Norris (Hank) were actually longtime buddies and he (Michael Bowen) had tears in his eyes when he killed Hank in Breaking Bad

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16897 TIL about George Spencer. He was executed by hanging for charges of sodomy after being convicted for an alleged sexual act with an animal. When a sow gave birth to a malformed piglet resembling Spencer, it was believed that this was irrefutable evidence that an act of bestiality had taken place
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6e78 TIL former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle drilled a hole in the front of his safety helmet and installed cigarette lighters in his race cars in the 80’s and 90’s so that he could smoke while racing. NASCAR permitted it during caution periods of races.
N7ZwE TIL: Black US troops were welcome in Britain in WW2, but the US military's attempt to initiate segregation led to a shootout.