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

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ne9lY TIL that the small city of Jericho in the West Bank holds two records: It's the oldest continuously populated city known to date (settled 9000 BC, according to archaeologists). Located near the Dead Sea, Jericho is also the city with the lowest altitude on the planet, "rising" to −258 m (−846 ft).
oRo1o TIL that when singer Janis Ian's non-sexual relationship with her female chaperone was misconstrued as sexual, a comedian made it his business to try to blacklist her from television due to her supposed sexuality. At the time she had only been kissed once, by a boy. That comedian? Bill Cosby.
NQvM TIL Out of 10.7 million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World, only 388,000 were shipped to North America (-6%).
KOJaa TIL that the UK was caught using a fake rock to spy on Russians
R58ow TIL about Mansa Musa, 9th Mansa of the Mali Empire and candidate for richest person in history. Mansa Musa presided over Mali's 14th Century golden age, when it traded across the Sahara with Europe and Egypt and made Timbuktu a centre of Islamic learning and scholarship.