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TIL the Chicago Tribune, New Yorker, Boston Globe, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette all gave Season 1 of “Breaking Bad” a negative review.

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9d1X TIL When the LIFE board game debuted in the 1860s, it included spaces for Suicide, Prison, Poverty, and Disgrace.
mXrp TIL a guy dissected every scene from lost and put them in a chronological timeline. He took every flashback, flash forward, and flash sideways, extracting them from the present day stroyline, and one big timeline.
wN5M TIL Superior Justice Nancy Backhouse denied comedian David Foley’s motion to pay less than $17000 a month for child support, 400% of his monthly income.
rNRM1 TIL of sacrificial anodes. They are normally Zinc blocks that are attached to a ships hull. They have a more anodic, i.e. less noble, potential than steel when immersed in sea water, so they corrode away instead of the ships hull it is attached to. Once worn they can then be replaced.
O514 TIL your bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup specifically mentions tomato in the name because when it was introduced, ketchups of other varieties other than tomato were common.