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TIL that Breaking Bad was originally set in Riverside, California but was moved to New Mexico simply due to better tax laws

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DYD TIL that Sean Connery has sworn not to return to Scotland until it becomes an independent state.
lgM7 TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room, he pointed to the fake client. The real client was found not guilty
yeAp TIL Crows can recognize individual human faces, and will warn/teach other crows of specific individuals they find threatning.
BgvAy TIL that in 1980, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore warned Australia it was on track to become the ‘poor white trash of Asia’ if it didn’t open up its economy. Australia did open its economy, thrived, and has very close and friendly relations with Singapore.
ykJJ TIL an impossible staircase was built inside a chapel in New Mexico in 1878 by what people thought was St. Joseph himself and it’s still there today