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TIL Samsung Uses Robots Shaped Like Butts To Bend-Test Its Phones

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W7r14 TIL about Dr.Yusuf Hamied, a billionaire and chairman of Cipla Pharma, who is known as "Robin Hood", while Big Pharma calls him a "Pirate". He stood up to the big pharma and manufactured generic AIDS drugs bringing down the cost from $12,000 per year to $350 per year, thus saving millions of lives
ADWwB TIL Lyndon Johnson's closest aide, Walter Jenkins, was forced to resign when he was arrested for gay sex. Johnson's wife publically supported Jenkins in a time when homosexuality was heavily scorned.
Y7K7d TIL that 3-5 cups of coffee a day is associated with the lowest overall cardiovascular disease risk after controlling for other factors
DQe0P TIL that in 2012 scientists genetically modified a bird flu virus, which had a 60% human mortality rate, to aerosolize it in order to 'more effectively manage the trajectory of pandemic viruses'. It scared them so badly that they paused all research for months
598D TIL During Bruce Lee’s second autopsy, his doctor tried to attribute his cause of death to Cannabis