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TIL that Sertraline (Zoloft) is the most sold antidepressant in the US with almost 40 million prescriptions a year which is a staggering 25% more than the second most prescribed antidepressants Escitalopram (Lexapro).

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6eZ TIL that, unlike other professions in the USA, members of the Clergy can opt-out from Social Security, and 30% do. Many who opt-out from paying into the system have been let back in to collect benefits when they retire.
o5xo TIL that during WWII, Joan Pujol Garcia, a double agent that spied on Germany for the British, was supposed to recruit spies in Britain for the Germans. He made up so many fake spy names that Germany decided they had enough “agents” spying for them in Britain, and didn’t want anymore.
nRKB TIL Walt Disney personally hated the Goofy character and found its cartoons to be ‘stupid’. The only reason he didn’t axe the character is because it gave work to so many animators.
neWJb In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a poor woman with a middle-school education, made one of the greatest medical contributions ever. Her cells, taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy, became the first immortal human cell line—the cells reproduce infinitely in a lab. Although other immortal lines have since been established, Lacks's "HeLa" cells are the standard in labs around the world. Together they outweigh 100 Empire State Buildings and could circle the equator three times.
LkaR9 TIL that two-star orbiting planets like Star Wars' Tatooine were by wide consensus considered impossible, and the first such planet was only confirmed as recently as 2011