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TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.

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W7r14 TIL about Dr.Yusuf Hamied, a billionaire and chairman of Cipla Pharma, who is known as "Robin Hood", while Big Pharma calls him a "Pirate". He stood up to the big pharma and manufactured generic AIDS drugs bringing down the cost from $12,000 per year to $350 per year, thus saving millions of lives
AgOd TIL, among other interesting things about Terminator 2, that Arnold Schwarzenegger never blinks on screen. Not once.
D9xj TIL the coelacanth, a fish thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago until a fisherman caught one in 1938, is more closely related to reptiles and mammals than it is to the vast majority of fish.
O1XY TIL that MK Ultra, the evil program from ‘Stranger Things’, was a real life project ran by the CIA
7B47 TIL Google has been interested in becoming a wireless carrier like Verizon and AT&T since 2012.