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TIL that Breaking Bad’s “Ozymandias” episode has the best overall rating of a TV episode on IMDB (more than 95% voted it a 10)

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kJWoW TIL, "the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation." is actually nothing more than a myth and Dr. Robert R. Brownlee (man responsible for legend/myth) wrote an essay about it.
jP1p TIL crows are smart. They have episodic-like memory, fashion tools to harvest food, and can tell one human from another by facial recognition.
Me8xA TIL of the longest word in Greek, a dish invented by the ancient comedian Aristophanes: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. Made of dogfish and pigeon.
yQXge TIL: 53-year-old former Chicago Sun Times Publisher, James Tyree, died accidentally from an air embolism and the family won a ten million dollar wrongful death suit settlement.
kOEBg TIL Certain Ant Species Have Evolved Huge, Shield-like Heads, Which They Use to Plug the Entrances to Their Nests From Predators