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TIL that the meth used in Breaking Bad is actually rock candy

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9Y9v7 TIL of Canadian conservation officer Bryce Casavant, dispatched to kill a female black bear found eating from a freezer in a mobile home park. He complied with the order to kill the mother bear but got fired for refusing to kill her 2 cubs. He finally won a legal battle to vindicate his decision.
DvKJ TIL: 2 F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11.
6WkQ TIL: Marilyn Monroe was raised in foster care & later, admitted to 2 psychiatric hospitals. Her mother was unwed & mentally unstable when she gave birth. Her mother & both maternal grandparents were in mental institutions. To escape foster care, Marilyn married one of her neighbors when she was 16.
rBjw TIL that sometimes when we scratch one part of our body we can feel in another point somewhere else, and this is called Referred Itch
5rmk TIL that a shot in Hannibal of a flayed naked couple was unacceptable to NBC due to the fact that their butts were visible. As a compromise, the director offered to fill their buttcracks with blood to make the shot less offensive. NBC agreed