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Today I learned that the US government can’t negotiate drug prices because of a law making it illegal.

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nWeeb TIL the original Bisquick formula was inspired by a dining car chef on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Said chef mixed the dry ingredients for the RR's biscuit recipe, stored it in the icebox, then added liquid ingredients when needed to have fresh biscuits ready at a moment's notice.
7r8yx TIL that on April Fools' Day 2006, Brian Shaffer, an Ohio State med student, was captured by CCTV entering a campus bar — but NOT coming out again. He's been missing for 10 years. Police wonder if he somehow escaped, others believe his body is still inside the bar.
nW40G TIL: Button-Down and Button-Up dress shirts are 2 different things, and the terminology is referring to whether the collar is buttoned down to the shirt (or not)
DQYJp TIL Pizza companies Domino's, Little Caesars, and Hungry Howies are all headquartered in Michigan
kOGr4 TIL that autistic people have around 27 billion neurons on average. For the sake of comparison, a non autistic adult has around 16 billion neurons, and a chimpanzee around has 8 billion.