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TIL increasingly stringent FDA requirements have lead to a six-fold increase in drug development costs

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l7807 TIL that the Sega Saturn was Sega's best-selling console in Japan and even outsold the Nintendo 64 in that region
8e5D8 TIL about the Siege of Leningrad during WW2 - it went on for 872 days and led to ~1.5 million deaths from a prewar population of 3.4 million
P1GKg TIL As far as we know, the african spiny mice are the only rodents that goes through a menstrual cycle. In general, menstrual cycles are rare in mammals.
Yp1Jd TIL 30,000 People disappeared during Argentina’s dirty war. Every Thursday Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo fills with women wearing white scarves and holding signs covered with names of those who were kidnapped by the government.