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TIL Samuel L. Jackson crashed the set of “Breaking Bad” and requested to be an extra as “Nick Fury”. The producers ultimately denied him.

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PYJaV TIL that in addition to being the second largest country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is also the world's second largest French-speaking country with its capital, Kinshasa, being the largest French-speaking city.
jxBM TIL Lincoln suffered from chronic depression: “He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times—he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide.”
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d5M7 TIL that, with some anxious thoughts, you can “bore yourself calm” by repeating them in front of a mirror until they lose power.
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