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TIL the most expensive drug in the world is called Glybera and costs 1.6 million USD per treatment!

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xgxk TIL that multiple cities claim to be the “Second City of the United Kingdom”. Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester argue for the title, as did Calcutta, Dublin, and Philadelphia in the past.
yGBa TIL Human Saliva contains a painkiller 6 times more potent then morphine
yZyp TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.
5YRGB TIL Western Michigan University Thomas Cooley law school has such low standards that at least a quarter of their students enrolled in 2018 had an LSAT test score among the USA's bottom 12%.
R75w9 TIL: Nirvana played a concert in Beunos Aires where the crowd threw mud and trash at the all-girl opening act. Kurt Cobain was so upset that he sabotaged the show by playing mostly lesser known songs and teasing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' without ever playing it.