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TIL After Breaking Bad, many meth manufacturers in real life dyed their product blue.

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wX0P TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
N7Oge TIL in 2003, North Korea suggested several symbols which were included in international Unicode, later becoming emojis. They requested ☕ to mark tea houses on maps and ⚐ & ⚑ for military battles and victories. They also requested ⬆, ⬇, ⬅ (but no right arrow), ☔, ⚡, ⚠ and ⏏.
5VdbR TIL of Corrie Sanders a WBO Heavyweight Champion, who would die using his body to shield his daughter from bullets during an armed robbery.
b9xr0 TIL That a prisoner in Venezuela makes more money a week from prison than I do in a month!
yQVev TIL that William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook at 19. He later said that “When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violence". He wished it would go out of print but had never owned the copyright.