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TIL: The pharmaceutical companies median markup price markup for cancer therapies ranged from 118.4% to 633.6% in the US

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pwK8 TIL Mr. Potato Head was originally a kit to be used with an actual potato and that it was the first children’s toy that was advertised on television.
87JX TIL the Men’s Warehouse guy (“I guarantee it”) was fired because he had “difficulty accepting the fact” that, although he founded the company, he was no longer in control as a CEO, and just simply a pitchman.
5XJ9 TIL that most world maps exaggerate the size of Europe and the US. A more accurate map was drawn up in 1972, but is widely unknown of.
b6nQj TIL that James Barrie lost his 13-year-old brother in an accident as a kid. To comfort his mother, he started speaking and acting like his brother, and his mother always treated him as if he was his dead brother. Thus, Barrie later wrote a novel about a kid stuck in eternal childhood: "Peter Pan".
epx9E TiL that it can be illegal to put laxatives in your own food to prevent someone stealing your lunch. Bummer!