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TIL Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and cinematographer Michael Slovis wanted to shoot Breaking Bad in CinemaScope, But Sony and AMC wouldn't allow it.

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D1MAP TIL roughly 2000 Canadians fought in the Spanish Civil War (proportionately higher than the ratio of US or British volunteers) and roughly half died
0wrL5 TIL Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother. The boyfriend was a known abuser.
0xDp TIL that “⸮” has been proposed as a punctuation mark to denote irony since the 1580s.
P1aRV TIL in WWI 'Male' tanks had cannon and 'Female' tanks had machine guns.
QNEm9 TIL in Egypt, around 17000 divorce cases in 2018 cited "Candy Crush" as the cause of divorce.