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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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EgmWW TIL: that First Lady Grace Coolidge acquired a pet raccoon meant to be eaten for Thanksgiving at the White House in 1926. Rather than becoming the main course, she became the official White House Raccoon and was named Rebecca.
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