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

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4Xmjw TIL the nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s can help identify forged paintings by using radiocarbon dating. Authenticators can count the number of carbon 14 isotopes and decide whether the number is realistic for the time. Carbon 14 isotopes are known to have dramatically increased after these tests.
VB6pp TIL that men should be drinking more than 15 cups of water each day, and women should be drinking more than 11 cups each day.
4XJV5 TIL Sean Connery agreed to drive himself during the production of Zardoz so that he and the film's writer/director could pocket the £300/day it was costing the film for a car and chauffeur
odvo TIL that sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) kills cockroaches. Once consumed, it causes the internal organs of cockroaches to burst due to gas collection.
pYyB4 TIL St. Clare of Assisi, who died in the year 1253, is the patron saint of television. It's because when she was too ill to attend Mass, she had reportedly been able to see and hear it on the wall of her room.