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TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read his lines for the final episode only. He threw the script in the trash and made sure he won’t find out the ending until it airs on television (FIXED)

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x61p7 TIL that it took all of human history up to 1804 for the world's population to reach 1 billion; but only a century to reach 2 billion.
6Ewa7 TIL: An interesting yet unexplained phenomenon is that men have erections while dreaming (REM sleep), even when the dream is void of salacious content. The ancient cultures that believed soul flies away during dreams, typically depict dreaming by an erection and a bird flying away from the body.
Oo91 TIL some of the Koi San people of southern Africa hunt antelope by chasing them on foot until they get heatstroke. The antelope overheat before the humans do.
rRRk1 TIL homosexuality might be caused by the mother's immune system---which may mistake male-specific proteins on the Y chromosome as pathogens and "attack" them, leading to developmental quirks
m1plv TIL: This Chinese card game "Fight the Landlord" really related to the real history Land Reform Movement in China in 1950s. Interestingly about the gameplay is that this game is for 3 players: 1 landlord vs 2 farmers.