Post * VpDZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that big pharmaceutical companies have been known to sue smaller ones to force the smaller companies to accept cash in exchange for not producing generic drugs

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D1gxV TIL: A Prodigy named Taylor Wilson built a working nuclear reactor in a garage when he was just 14 years old.

E1kP7 TIL that even at 0 Kelvin (absolute zero), atoms continue to vibrate due the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that a particle's momentum cannot be precisely determined if its position is known, and vice versa. Basically, because the atom's position is known at 0K, its momentum can't be

M7yxW TIL that the doctor who attended to Osceola ignored his dying wish to be buried in Florida, and removed Osceola's head after his death to put it on display in his drug store. When his children misbehaved, he would move the head to their room for the night.

ad6L TIL A woman became the youngest Grandma at 23 years old. She had a daughter when she was 11 and a grandson 12 years later.

6E74w TIL that Ted Danson performed in blackface at the Friar's Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg. He made extensive use of the n-word and ate a watermelon onstage. "Goldberg defended the sketch, explaining that she had helped write much of the material"