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TIL that "Texas" is slang for "crazy" in Norway.
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TIL that the inventors of INSULIN sold the patent in 1923 to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 saying they felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Two of the inventors won the Nobel Prize in 1923 and split the money with the two others not included
WP74
TIL The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the top search result for reporting mental health abuses, is run by Scientology
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TIL that space junk/debris falls back to Earth on a daily basis, and not all re-entries are controlled. The CORDS Reentry Database documents objects and payloads that have reentered earth’s atmosphere since 2000.
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TIL of “Bitchin’ Betty”, a voice system in military aircraft that warns pilots by literally shouting at them seconds before they need to turn so they don’t crash
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TIL that a 500 page book contains only 0.53 calories