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TIL the easiest way to lower the cost of healthcare is to get rid of insurance companies.

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5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
PYweg TIL that there are 400 known albino redwoods, which survive by getting sugar through roots of nearby trees
xmNb TIL that the first people to discover magnetic rocks were the Chinese. They called them “the loving stones” because the stones love metal the way parents love children
LQ6Km TIL that in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1987 a radiotherapy device was stolen from an abandoned hospital. The people who found it broke it open, exposing the 93 g of radioactive caesium chloride and leading to the contamination of 250 people, 20 of whom experienced radiation sickness and 4 of whom died
9wdJr TIL that in 67 C.E, Emperor Nero found a Boy named Sporus Who looked Like his deceased Wife, so he had him Castrated, Put in female attire, and made his entire Court play along with the act