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TIL there’s a dog running for president.

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Q7rL TIL that Medicare fully covers dialysis (~80k/yr) and kidney transplants (~263k) but only covers three years of immunosuppressive drugs (~18k/yr). This creates a cycle in which patients can’t afford their medicine, the kidney fails, and the patient is put on dialysis - in need of another transplant.
w1d7 TIL that January was named after Janus, the Roman God with two faces - one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future.
ODK6 TIL When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.
GYdZG TIL in 2018, United Airlines switched to lighter paper for their inflight magazines, it saved 1oz per copy which after 1 year saved 170,000 gallons (643,000 L) of fuel worth $290,000.
70Ar TIL a stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungles and rivers to complete a 430-mile (688 km) race, just because one of the team members had given it a meat ball during one of the earlier halts.