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TIL: One of the oldest and most effective asthma meds, Albuterol, was $15 per inhaler in 2000, now after it was re-patented it is $100.

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0wywN TIL, a Donald Duck cartoon about Hitler won the Best Animated Short Oscar in 1943.
E1lEo TIL the Vatican City drinks more wine per person than anywhere else in the world. Its residents consume an average of 74 litres (105 bottles) over the course of a year. About double the amount drunk by the average person in France or Italy, and triple the quantity consumed in the UK.
DQxjJ TIL that in the 2000 Paralympic games, Spain was stripped of its intellectually disabled basketball gold medal after it was revealed that only 2 of its 12 basketball players actually had an IQ below 75, the requirement to qualify. Intellectual disability would be abandoned until the 2012 Paralympics
m1Jro TIL Scientists created an antenna that is only five nanometres long
VBWL8 TIL Sun Microsystems was named after Stanford University Network