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TIL: Quoted over $60,000 for dental work, a man ended up traveling outside of the US to get the same treatment done for $3,000 from a dentist in Mexico.

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EEJp TIL Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire created the first declaration of human rights and is honorably mentioned in the Bible, Jewish Bible (Tanakh), and Quran.
4Xl8N TIL about the ~2,000 yr old Roman aqueduct in Segovia Spain. 15km long. Almost 100 ft at highest. Almost 2,000 km by road to Rome. Carried water into the 1920's
ARxl TIL Leonard Nimoy was so associated with Spock’s character he was once invited to the California Institute of Technology to review work on several projects. He later admits not knowing a word of what they were saying, but remained in character.
eyxk TIL that it is near impossible to incapacitate someone with chloroform against their will. It would tak nearly 5 minutes of constant inhanling to render a target incapacitated.
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