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TIL Drugmakers and Internet companies link U.S. pharmacy records with online accounts to target ads to people based on their health conditions and the prescription drugs they buy.

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wo5Y1 TIL several Supreme Court Justices opposed the creation of a Supreme Court Building because they preferred to work from home
7aKb TIL - The first female flight attendants had to be an unwed nurse, weight between 100-118 lbs, stand 5ft to 5'4" and be 20 to 26 years old
nWBjB TIL that the idea that people harvest Adrenochrome from humans, subject of a wide-spread conspiracy theory, originated in Hunter S. Thompson's novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
X0vAk TIL about "Household Objects", the planned follow-up album to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". It was going to be an album recorded with only common household objects. Only two songs were produced before it was scraped.
MeP4V TIL in 1956 Marija Gimbutas postulated the "Kurgan hypothesis" - that the source of Indo-European languages across Eurasia were the Steppe cultures of the Pontic steppe who first domesticated horses and invented the wheel. In recent years, ancient DNA studies seem to have proven her theory correct.