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TIL in 2020, a judge reduced the awarded damages in a class action suit against Risperidal’s maker by a 12 person jury from $8 billion to $6.8 million (-99.915%)

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a8wjZ TIL Timgad ruins are one of the best extant examples of the grid plan as used in Roman town planning and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
69mJJ TIL actual Witch hunts are still occurring in Nepal, and may involve a combination of torture, beating, burning alive and feeding of excrement
OA04 TIL that in 2011 it was revealed that the US have a spy operation that manipulates social media (including sites like Reddit, incase you hadn’t already noticed….)
lxAV TIL that the creepy white face animation in the “We Can’t Stop” music video is actually from a very early CGI demo from 1974.
4K05 TIL in the Netherlands, citizens with disabilities receive public money to pay for sexual services up to 12 times a year