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

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wLbRP TIL the term "Game Over" originated with light-up displays on 1950's pinball machines
pYRxe TIL Gorillaz' 'Clint Eastwood' isn’t an original riff and drum beat. It’s a preset called ‘Rock One’ on the Suzuki Omnichord autoharp
d8YOd TIL that a 1950s and 60s Greenwich Village street poet named Big Brown had an enormous influence on Kerouac and the Beats, Bob Dylan, and proto-Hip Hop with Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite) and The Last Poets. Dylan referred to his poems as "the best poetry I ever heard".
78GAP TIL that "degloving" is the term used for when the skin is pulled from the hand, like taking off a glove of human skin usually but not always through industrial accident. This can sometimes be put back on, again like a glove. (Gore and detailed photo, do not look if this may upset you)
xVXjB TIL That there are 'stealth Starbucks' - a Starbucks coffeehouse which does not advertise the Starbucks brand