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TIL That Saudi Arabia Bought an Injection that Costs($2.1m) Just to Treat a Young Girl Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) for Free.

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6n88 TIL that in WWII there actually was a land battle fought in US territory, the Battle of Attu, the westernmost Aleutian Island.
VlaQ TIL At Harvard, Neil Degrasse Tyson was criticized by a fellow African American economist major who told him that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of your intellectual talents being spent on astrophysics”.
MAr0 TIL one man planted an entire 1,300 acre forrest by himself over the course of 30 years that now is a home to wild elephants, deer, rhinos, and tigers.
b67MQ TIL about the Cosquer cave in France. Its only entrance lies 121ft (37m) below the surface of the water, and it has cave drawings of various animals that are estimated to be 27,000 years old.
nMjr TIL a camel can drink 53 gallons of water in 3 minutes.