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TIL Rick Astley had a hit single called “Giving Up on Love”

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YpRvd TIL that in 1921, Frederick B. Banting figured out how to extract insulin from a dog’s pancreas, creating the first real treatment of diabetes. He intended to make it extremely cheap in order to save as many people as possible but private companies now charge almost $300 a single vial of insulin.
e09y6 TIL that the scientific name of a llama is, Lama glama.
lA51 TIL Nazi war criminals are still being tracked down in the US. The most recent Poland requested the extradition of 98-year-old Minnesota man Michael Karkoc, who is believed by authorities to have been a commander of a Nazi-led unit that was responsible for war crimes during World War II.
nGNP TIL: Europe was much bigger, with a massive area of land connecting England, France, Denmark and Germany as recently as 8,000 BC. The landmass was washed away by one of the largest landslides and tsunamis known.
X0P6X TIL Brussels Sprouts today are significantly less bitter than they were in the 90s thanks to Dutch scientists