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TIL: The GPS coordinates in the last season of Breaking Bad are actually the coordinates for Albuquerque Studios where Breaking Bad was filmed.

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OGxER TIL that in 1981, the magazine Locus butchered the title of Gene Wolfe's next novel "The Citadel of the Autarch" and announced that it would be titled "The Castle of the Otter". Wolfe found the mistake so funny he actually published a book titled "The Castle of the Otter" the following year.
kJ9EW TIL about Prions, an infectious agent that isn't alive so it can't be killed, but can hijack your brain and kill you nonetheless. Humans get infected by eating raw brains from infected animals.
R59Ow TIL that the anticoagulant coumadin (aka warfarin) was derived from a substance found in moldy clover that was killing cattle. The name "warfarin" comes from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which sponsored the research.
D6LV TIL Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the most incest-friendly royal family in recorded history, and her first two husbands were her younger brothers
KObG6 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg is actually only five foot seven inches tall, but he stages his photos to exaggerate his height.