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TIL the FDA approved a medication that prevent HIV/AIDS in 2012… that has a 92% success rate.

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BY8x TIL that the US government during WW2 asked the press to avoid discussing “polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deuterium”. Only uranium was secret, for the Manhattan Project, but was listed with the other elements to hide its importance.
x6Ex1 TIL that the final Jackson 5 tour was such a financial disaster for the concert promoter that he was forced to sell the New England Patriots to cover the costs
KYGQE TIL the Big Mac guy from the Supersize Me documentary has now consumed over 34,000th Big Macs and is in good health
jNa9R TIL France is the World's leading water purificator and has most availability to its citizens.
OG6Z6 TIL A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study| The most complete fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching.