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TIL The plane crash in Breaking Bad mirrors the real-life 1986 Cerritos mid-air collision, and the junior air traffic controller involved was actually named Walter White.

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YmP7 TIL that Jim Carrey explained the significance of detecting gravity waves in the cosmic microwave background 10+ years ago (Conan O'Brien Show, 22 May 2003). Special guest star Stephen Hawking.
0Ojp TIL The CIA have released all their documents on UFOs
W7QKd TIL That honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
R5B5w TIL The vertebrate with the smallest brain to body mass ratio is the deep sea "bathypelagic bony-eared assfish"
N99J TIL: The Cuckoo Bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly “enslave” the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.