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TIL about Teniky, a set of mysterious stone ruins in a remote part of inland Madagascar, which recent research suggests was built by medieval Zoroastrian Iranian settlers

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YpJ8Z TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented
OJK6 TIL in 1918, during WW1, there was a flu pandemic that killed 50 to 100 million people, all across the world. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States.
R5lx7 TIL that the oxygen for emergency masks on planes does not come from tanks, but instead from a chemical reaction
rmy4 TIL of the youngest execution by the US government. George Stinney was executed at 14 years old for murder. The electric chair cap didn’t fit his small head and he had to use a bible as a booster seat.
oR5dA TIL About a turbine bearing at Holtwood Hydroelectric Power Plant in Pennsylvania that has been running maintenance free for over 100 years and rated to continue operating for more than 1300 years without maintenance. Amazing thing is that it was Albert Kingsbury's first practical application.