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TIL the most expensive drug in the world costs $3.5 million

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wL687 TIL that various ideas such as radioactive cats and spiky landscapes have been proposed for the Department of Energy to deter future civilization from interfering with nuclear waste burial sites.
p87eN TIL a bill was proposed in 1910 to release hippos into the Louisiana bayous, both as a way to clear out invasive river plants and solve a critical shortage of meat. It was backed by Former President Roosevelt and The New York Times, which praised hippo meat as tasting like "lake cow bacon."
neEw9 TIL James Scott was convicted of causing the 'Great Mississippi Flood of 1993', the most costly flood in US history. His friend told authorities that Scott broke the levee to strand his wife on the other side of the river, so Scott could drink and have an affair
NXkpE TIL The US Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million.
loO5 TIL that a man was tried and convicted of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl in Texas. When DNA analysis was discovered the court of appeals denied him a retrial even though he was not a match.