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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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grZm7 TIL less than a month before 18 year old Ty Cobb started his rookie season with the Detroit Tigers, his father was shot and killed on the porch of their home. The killer was Cobb’s mother. She claimed she thought he was an intruder. She was charged with murder but later acquitted.
VBnOQ TIL: That 4/20 is also National Pineapple Upside-down Cake Day.
VBlK4 TIL that when the USS Badger State sank, some sailors were lost by being attacked by albatrosses.
ybep TIL any US citizen can take possession of an uninhabited island anywhere in the world so long as it contains guano deposits and is not within the jurisdiction of another government.
ZWYB TIL certain Native American tribes recognized a third gender separate from male and female. A two-spirit is one who’s body manifests both masculine and feminine spirits simultaneously. They were often male and married other males but they weren’t seen as homosexual among their tribe.