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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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awl9N TIL Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido was murdered by a knife-wielding drunk guy a few months after Lincoln’s assassination.
N7e8J TIL that there is seaweed that tastes just like bacon and is twice as healthy as kale
m15dE TIL that it is unknown why the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Norway despite the other Nobel Prizes being awarded in Sweden. Alfred Nobel, who the awards were established in memory of, said that it should be that way in his will and gave no explanation as to why
VjyG TIL video games are commonly released on Tuesdays thanks to Sonic The Hedgehog
9YVwr TIL that Action Park, a New Jersey theme park which opened in 1978, was infamous for being poorly constructed, with at least six guests killed by the rides. It featured a water slide which was closed after only a month, and which supposedly decapitated a crash test dummy during safety testing.