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TIL New York composer Sung Jin Hong plans to write an opera on the series Breaking Bad

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8eGNZ TIL Romanian is a romance language, along with Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
8ag48 Today I Learned: The famous "Blue Waffle" shock image/hoax likely shows the application of gentian violet antifungal medication to treat a yeast infection
7r4Np TIL that the word “huh” is a universal word, with almost identical meaning across 31 languages.
KYvoB TIL that Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal who did barbaric medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, survived WW2. In 1979, he drowned in Brazil, where his skeleton is now used as an educational aid at medical school.
KY0G9 TIL Violet Jessop is most well known for having survived the sinking of both the RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship the HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been onboard the eldest of the three sister ships, the RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911