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TIL A drug called DCA has been shown to work in a small clinical trial on brain cancer patients. Drug companies won’t invest in it as it is unpatentable and therefore unprofitable. Entrepreneurs banned from selling it in the US

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GYb6N TIL that since 1999, 55 Cuban soccer players have defected to the United States after being flown over for a game. This was possible because of the wet feet, dry feet policy, which stated that any Cuban who set foot in the United States was entitled to become a US resident. The policy ended in 2017.
yQD9p TIL that the Harley Davidson V-Rod was developed in collaboration with Porsche and was their first motorcycle that used water cooling and overhead cams.
8evxL TIL In perfecting the design of their first aircraft, the Wright Brothers built and tested prototypes inside of a Wind Tunnel - to which they credited the bulk of their aircraft’s success.
RQe8 TIL Nowhere in the Bible does it say that exactly three magi came to visit the baby Jesus, nor that they were kings, or rode on camels, or that their names were Casper, Melchior, and Balthazar.
LQygV TIL about a refrigerator in the 1920s co-designed by Albert Einstein for the poor. The Einstein–Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate.