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TIL that a 2013 study found that about 25% of all US senior citizens declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses, and 43% are forced to mortgage or sell their primary residence

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NXxOQ TIL that Chindōgu is the practice of inventing gadgets which serve a purpose but are impractical or silly. A term coined by Kenji Kawakami with some early Chindōgu including a toilet roll dispenser you wear on your head for hay fever sufferers and glasses with inbuilt funnels for eyedrop application
9PL6 TIL that Vick’s inhalers will cause you to test positive for Meth on drug tests
e08QE TIL in WW1, the British would fire giant stink bombs at the German trenches. The bombs smelled terrible but were harmless. This was done to compel the Germans to put on gasmasks, which made them less effective fighters, prior to an assault.
XWKk TIL The person with the oldest confirmed lifespan was born the year Alexander Graham Bell made the first sound transmission, and died the year Puff Daddy got a Billboard Hot 100 Number one with ‘Can’t nobody hold me down’
9666 TIL hundreds of chimpanzees were bred for AIDS research in the 1980s, only to find out that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS in chimps.