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TIL that through a US government website you can find out how much pharmaceutical companies are bribing your specific doctor

Read more openpaymentsdata.cms.gov

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mxVny TIL the Vermont-Quebec border runs right through a library/opera house. The building is open to free use by both Canadians and Americans, provided they enter and leave from their country's respective door.
m18xO TIL that Ohm's law (Voltage=Current*Resistance) was rejected by the German scientific/education community for over a decade after Georg Ohm published his research
oBaEW TIL: After WW2, the Allies discovered meticulous plans for a Sun Gun by the Nazis. Planned by renowned Nazi Scientist Hermann Oberth, it was a .62 mile mirror attached to a space station to burn cities and evaporate oceans estimated to take 15 years to build. He later joined NASA.
LPkp TIL that in 1976 Olympic relay the flame was transmitted as a radio signal from Greece to Canada, triggering a laser beam to relight the fire.
m1j4E TIL John Rhys-Davies' stunt double in the Lord of the Rings movies, Brett Beattie, got co-credit as Gimli due to playing him in so many scenes but had the credit removed a week later because of “concerns about preserving the illusion that is Gimli"