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TIL the cost to procure a drone for US Dept of the Interior ballooned from $2,600 in 2020 to $15,000 in 2023 (page 6)

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yM4X TIL that Dr. Jack Kevorkian proposed that inmates condemned to death be allowed to choose “medical experimentation under complete anaesthesia (at the time appointed for administering the penalty) as a form of execution in lieu of conventional methods prescribed by law.”
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