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TIL it costs more to keep a prisoner in prison, than to send a student to Princeton.

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lo8XK TIL Scientists Create ‘Revolutionary’ Artificial Womb. The researchers successfully tested the system on fetal lambs, but they hope that the technology can one day be applied to helping save the lives of critically preterm infants.
bnd9 TIL that there is a form of insomnia that is progressive and 100% fatal. Sufferers gradually lose the ability to sleep until it is completely impossible. After several months of no sleep, they become unresponsive, mute, and eventually die.
RA66 TIL heroin use among US adults went from 0.33% to 1.6% from 2001 to 2013.
dD4W9 TIL Basic oxygen steelmaking was invented by just one man; the Swiss engineer Robert Durrer in 1948. Durrer's technique accounts for 60% of all steel production as of 2000. additionally, since 1920 the labor requirements to produce steel have decreased by a factor of 1,000.
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