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TIL: FDA's Shocking Drug Approval Loopholes Discovered the FDA's drug approval loopholes in "Truth is an Illusion" by Aretha Gonyora. "Accelerated approval" & "breakthrough therapy" designations can lead to insufficient safety testing—troubling when lives are at stake.

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pYY1e TIL Celine Dion once said she got along more with older children and adults while as a child, preferring to not go to school due to being bullied; her brother would eventually introduce 12-year-old Celine to 38-year-old Rene, who would be her career manager and eventual husband.
QN7AM TIL That Palm Trees Are Both Vegetable And Fruit Plants, The Fruit is The Dates/Coconuts, And The Vegetable is Their Edible Core Called The "Heart of Palm", as Palm "Trees" Are Not Real Trees, As They Don't Contain Wood
R7Q6j TIL in 2016, the Swedish Tourism Council created a single phone number that connected the caller to a random Swede for you to have a conversation with. In the 79 days it was open, almost 200,000 calls were made with a combined 367 days worth of conversations.
7rDyx TIL that the original name for Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was “Herpes Trout”
W7pVA Til if you press the blue time stamps in YouTube comments it will take you to the exact moment of the video.