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TIL Alcoholics Anonymous has a 5 to 10% success rate ~ 1 in 15.

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J1BX1 TIL - ASML holds a monopoly over the extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines used for the most advanced computer chips. Their best selling product is the Twinscan NXE:3600D costing $150 million. Shipping the machine requires 40 shipping containers, 20 trucks and three Boeing 747s.
9YpL6 TIL that scientists found a drug called Tideglusib that can repair cavities by re-growing teeth
j6P1N TIL Pelé, one of the greatest football players of all times, was also an excellent goalkeeper. He was a designated reserve goalie for his team Santos and played in that position 4 times and once in a friendly game for Brazil.
DjVe TIL If it wasn’t for Jupiter’s gravitational pull, Earth would have been destroyed by meteors by now
neljP TIL that the finance minister of Latvia is also Woman Grandmaster of chess, the second highest-ranking chess title that exists for women