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TIL the Creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, named the show “Breaking Bad” thinking everyone knew what it meant. Being from Virginia, it is a regional expression meaning “Raising Hell”.

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RZQj TIL that the reason many windows are blocked or bricked-up on older buildings in England is because there used to be a tax on windows.
OoxX6 TIL there is also a Tomb of Unknows Civil War soldiers. 2,111 unidentifiable casualties found in 1866
J1XMl TIL humans are pumping out so much groundwater that it's changed Earth's tilt 31.5-inches since 1993.
m5BE TIL Chrisopher Lee was a special forces commando, and corrected Peter Jackson on the actual sound one makes when being stabbed in the back.
GY1QN TIL a German Professor during WW1 recorded the voice of many Indian PoWs, a unique project at a PoW camp outside Berlin. In Tamil and Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu and more, these men speak and sing of home. Now available in the Humbolt archives.