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TIL the last writers strike in 2008 led the first season of Breaking Bad to be two episodes shorter and kept Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) alive. He was originally planned to be killed off first season.

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D1kre TIL: Converse shoes can be laced up utilizing the side eyelets near the sole for a snugger fit. This method is called "bar lacing."
4konw TIL homicide clearance rates in the US declined from a peak of 93% in 1962 to 64% in 1994. The rate then plateaued (with some variation) for the next 25 years. There is currently no satisfactory explanation for either the initial decline or why it ended when it did.
logvG TIL The first expedition by two members of the French Academy of Sciences to determine the circumference of the Earth (and thereby the length of the meter) was hampered by the French Revolution, and the second one by the Napoleonic wars
16JlX TIL after the American Revolution the -ville suffix became popular in the names of new US settlements due to an increase of pro-French sentiments.
gbe8 TIL that Godzilla’s roar was created using a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin and rubbing it against the string of a double bass