Post * XELlX — Curious Curator

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

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N7BlP TIL of Fritz Suhren, a concentration camp commandant. When the allies were close, he took Odette Sansom, an inmate whom he believed to be Churchill's niece, and drove with her to the US base, hoping it would save him. She was in fact a British spy under a false name. He was hanged in 1950

kJJv7 TIL that during WW2, an 2.5mi stretch of a newly tunnelled London Underground extension was converted to an electronics factory, to replace one that had been bombed in 1940

GAYWg TIL of Jack Brabham, a former racing driver, who founded the Brabham racing team, winning the 1966 Formula 1 championship driving one of his own cars, the only time it has happened

69Egm TIL All of the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube that is 28 meters (98 feet) wide on every side.

AePo TIL Harrods department store has a dress code policy. It has turned away people who it believed were not dressed appropriately. These included a soldier in uniform, a Scout troop, a woman with a mohican haircut, a 15 stone woman, and FC Shakhtar Donetsk’s first team for wearing tracksuits.