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TIL The Fastest Way to Send Big Chunks of Data Is Through the Mail, Not the Internet.“That means FedEx is capable of transferring 150 exabytes of data per day, or 14 petabits per second—almost a hundred times the current throughput of the internet.”

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8aLEb TIL that the patent for insulin was sold by the co-founders to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Their intention was that such an important medication should be affordable to all who need it. In the USA in 2016, patients were paying on average $450 per month for their prescriptions of insulin.
xVy6o TIL captive bred Poison Dart Frogs are not toxic because of their diet.
JYnaQ TIL During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, the Girl Scouts helped by cooking and delivering meals to patients throughout the city. They are credited with saving the lives of people too poor to afford doctors and preventing malnourished children from succumbing to influenza.
a88WJ TIL the funeral procession for Ulysses S. Grant contained more than 1.5 million people. Pallbearers for Grant included four Civil War Generals, Sherman, Sheridan, Johnston, and Buckner.
MerRb TIL That the claim about Fleming not wanting to patent penicillin so that the diffusion could spread faster, is false. He didn't have any means to bring it into mass production; besides, he didn't consider himself the inventor, attributing penicillin to nature.