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TIL Matthew Broderick and John Cusack were first chosen to play Walter White in Breaking Bad, but they refused.

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4kae5 TIL that Brady Feigl and Brady Feigl are two minor league baseball players that are unrelated, but share the same name and physical features. They are both 6’ 4” tall, have red hair, bushy red beards, thick glasses, and 53% Germanic ancestry.
BGlL TIL Facebook steals billions of views from YouTube by rigging their algorithms, counting views after 3 seconds, and “freebooting,” or downloading someone else’s copyrighted content and uploading it into Facebook’s video player
J1MYj TIL live pigeon shooting was an event held during the 1900 Paris Olympic Games,
nWNX7 TIL that the world's largest collection of flutes (yes, the musical instrument) is held by the US Library of Congress.
XEaoE TIL that last year in Denver there was a migration event for air mattresses. Resident Robb Manes was in his pool when two mattresses flew in. When he went outside there were 50 to 100 migrating across a field.