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TIL The DEA taught Bryan Cranston how to make meth for Breaking Bad

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VBdPk TIL That following the Messinian salinity crisis, during which the Mediterranean almost completely dried up for 630,000 years, 5.33 Ma ago the Zanclean flood happened: water broke through the Gibraltar Strait, filling the Mediterranean within months at 100,000,000 m³/s – 1,000x flow of the Amazon!
GAwrE TIL that the oldest still-operating webcam in the world is The FogCam! At San Fransisco State University It launched in July, 1994
WBv4 TIL Rabbits have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to detect predators from all directions. They can see everything behind them and only have a small blind-spot in front of their nose.
DQLye TIL that when Ford released the Model T in 1908, it cost $825 (adjusted to about $28,000 in 2023). Despite the popularity (about 15 million would eventually be sold) Ford kept dropping the price over the years, and by 1925 the basic model cost $260, the equivalent of about $4,500 today.
egR6 TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats