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TIL the website Walt Jr. created in ‘Breaking Bad’ is a real website with a button to donate to the National Cancer Coalition.

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7rwZO TIL that during the great depression, people used to pull cars with horses because they couldn't afford gas
Pwew TIL that halfway between the U.S. and Australia, there is a concrete sarcophagus called the Runit Dome. Essentially an American version of the Chernobyl sarcophagus, constructed to deal with lingering radioactivity within the Enewetak Atoll, site of 111,000 cubic yards of irradiated debris.
Mew57 TIL James Cameron sold the original Terminator script for just $1 to producer Gale Anne Hurd of New World Pictures. She would later marry James Cameron in 1985.
0P5N TIL that in 1979, Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building in an attempted suicide, only to be blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind. Her only injury was a broken hip.
xV6r5 TIL that in early August 2017, a people smuggler off the coast of Yemen deliberately drowned at least 29 teenage migrants. The average age of the migrants was 16.