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TIL Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston, telling him his work on Breaking Bad was the best he’s ever seen

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VV4Z TIL the first webcam was created to help people avoid pointless trips to the coffee room at the University of Cambridge. The camera provided a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot, which was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room.
5PJk TIL that the first school shooting to happen in the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre, in which 2 Delaware (Lenape) American Indians broke into a school where they shot and scalped the students and their teacher. 4 others were taken prisoner.
woZ9J TIL Preston Sturges sold the story of his debut as a director, The Great McGinty (1940) to Paramount pictures for $10, on the condition that he would direct his own screenplay for the first time.
wL5pM TIL only 20 slam dunks have been made in WNBA history, and 13 of them were made by a single player—Brittney Griner.
GYxJN TIL - Iron Man first appeared in comics in March, 1963 and fought the Viet Cong two years before the US ground war there