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TIL the US Government has spent more on a single plane than 10 years of funding for the NIH

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xMe1 TIL that most deaths from an overdose occur when an addict who has gone clean relapses and administers their old dose without realising that they have lost the tolerance they had built up.
waE TIL the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, who after the comic’s end became a recluse and evaded interviews and fans, revealed new art after a 16 year absence (an oil painting) to support a cartoonist with Parkinson’s.
pYPWp TIL that yawns are actually 'contagious' as the chances of you yawning increases by 6 times after seeing someone else yawn.
78krp TIL Olbers's paradox: for centuries there was no widely-accepted explanation for why the night sky is dark (if the universe is infinite, eternal, and/or static, the night sky shouldn't be dark)
4nvX TIL, Sunday’s Breaking Bad was dedicated to a teen who died of cancer. He turned down the chance to hear how it all ends saying he “wanted to find out along with everyone else”.