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TIL Novartis sued South Africa to prevent it from importing cheaper AIDS drugs

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mdGO TIL that American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.
8aL7G TIL: That upwards of 50% of all accidental deaths in the Tudor period were drownings
5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
X0APP TIL hippos, the same species that now lives in Africa, used to be found in England (130-115k years ago)
MYXB TIL that long-term couples develop interconnected memory systems.