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TIL that, after binge-watching Breaking Bad, Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston praising him for his portrayal of Walter White.

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QJgnp TIL on May 11, 1991, Creighton hosted Utah in the longest softball game in NCAA history, lasting 31innings. After a 20 minute break, game 2 of the doubleheader lasted 25 innings, the 3rd longest in history. The doubleheader ran from 6pm to 6:10am the next morning.
JE74 TIL there is controversy about scientists naming a protein “sonic hedgehog”. A mutation in this protein can cause serious birth defects and many scientists/clinicians dislike the idea of telling parents their child has “a mutation in their sonic hedgehog”
gMb8D TIL scattered around Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalaya are the bones of about 800 people who seemingly died in a single unkown event in 800 AD. Newer studies reveal that some of the bones belong to another group of people who also died in a single event. Except a thousand years after the others.
JkVj TIL that the city of Cincinnati, Ohio has an subway system that was built, never used, and left abandoned
YZ5W TIL you can calculate the radius of the Earth using just a stopwatch.