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TIL that actor Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter of praise to Bryan Cranston, telling him that his “performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.”

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eMnJ TIL in 1993 a student at UPenn was charged with violating the university’s racial harassment policy after calling a black woman a “water buffalo”. The university claimed it was racist: “a water buffalo is a dark primitive animal that lives in Africa.” Water Buffaloes come from Asia.
JYMbQ TIL that last summer the band Phish played thirteen concerts in a row at Madison Square Garden, and performed 237 songs without repeating a single one.
R7l0l TIL St. Patrick was not Irish at all, but a spoiled and rebellious young Roman citizen living a life of luxury in fifth-century Britain when he was suddenly kidnapped from his family’s estate as a teenager and sold into slavery across the sea in Ireland.
VEG0 TIL That the Pokémon Koffing and Weezing Were Originally Named NY and LA
e0LmD TIL Metallica did a concert in Antarctica setting a world record for being the only band to play all 7 continents. They used headphones instead of amplifiers to preserve the environment there.