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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Lkmdr TIL, the first TV commercial was 10 second ad for Bulova Watch Company on July 1st, 1941.

VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.

l6j1 TIL a professor of genetics at Stanford university believes that human intelligence peaked 1,000 years ago, and we’ve been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since.

9wLO6 TIL about Lizzie Cyr, a prostitute whose lawyer (John Cameron) claimed that the female magistrate on the case was unfit to judge as women were not considered people under Canadian law in 1928. The case led to females finally being declared people by the British privy council.

NXbKJ TIL that it's possible to to be libel-proof on the basis that your documented behavior has been so awful you're legally foreclosed from suing anyone for what they write about you. In the U.S. it's informally named the Dykstra defense.