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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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5YMDQ TIL An instrumental version of the song "Sukiyaki", a story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space
xVA7B TIL Capital punishment has only been imposed twice in the history of the state of Israel, one was a mistake the other was Adolf Eichmann
QyvM TIL After the First World War, Hungary lost 72% off his territory
njJ7 TIL archeologists in Titusville, FL discovered a 7,000 year old cemetery at the bottom of a pond. Some of the skulls contained preserved brain tissue.
NXVWb TIL that a riot broke out on St Scholastica Day, 10 February 1355, when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in the Swindlestock Tavern. Around 30 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university.