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TIL Goldman Sachs asked in a biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’

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PjLO TIL In 2001 Philip Morris published a report saying cigarettes saved the government money because smokers die before retiring.
gMAP9 TIL that the Southern Baptist Church formed in 1844 when Baptists living in the south opposed the efforts of Baptists living in the north to prevent missionaries from owning slaves. So they formed the Southern Baptist church, a church that explicitly allowed slavery.
dow8 TIL that the popularity of the SNES caught the attention of the Yakuza, prompting Nintendo to ship the consoles at night to prevent theft.
69RN7 TIL that Nicaraguan Sign Language was created entirely by deaf children interacting together in a vocational school for the deaf that focused on teaching lipreading & spoken Spanish.
14oP TIL that there’s a stinky, phallus-shaped mushroom can instantly trigger an intense female orgasm