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TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read only his lines for the final episode. He then threw the script in the garbage and made sure he would not know the ending until the episode airs on television

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pkBO TIL that in 1922, the New York Times reported that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused”.
lovb1 TIL In 1896 two norwegians crossed the Atlantic in 55 days in a rowboat. A record that lasted 114 years.
GYrJ1 TIL Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more Elephants will be without tusks because we killed most elephants with big tusks and removed them from gene pool.
awm9o TIL Congress had an Office of Technology Assessment to provide members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the day, but was defunded in 1995
Yp5ev TIL that a British man legally changed his name to James Bond and all its film titles up to Casino Royale as middle name. At 69 words, it was one of the longest recorded name in the world.