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TIL That Banting and Best sold away their rights to profit off insulin for $1 and today it can cost a person living with diabetes as much as $400 a month for their own insulin needed to survive.

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4Xj7R TIL Martin Luther enrolled at the University of Erfurt at age 17 to study law which he described as a "beerhouse and whorehouse". He gave up law for philosophy but eventually left university altogether, sold his books, & became a monk.
J8EV TIL: From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.
kO1Q7 TIL of the 121 songs Billy Joel recorded, 33 (27%) of them were top 40 hits.
8P5V TIL there are 550,000 miles of flexible undersea cables that carry the world’s data. Both USA and UK government agencies tap directly into it
ay9b TIL that the word “Barbarian” was invented by the ancient Greeks as an insulting term for anyone who didn’t speak the Greek language - to their ears, everyone else sounded like they were just saying “bar bar bar” all the time