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TIL of Duexis, a brand name medication consisting of ibuprofen 800 (4 advils) and famotidine 26.6 (1 and 1/3 pepcid) per capsule. A 90 count bottle costs over $3000, whereas 360 advils and 120 pepcid cost around $25.

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0d8gp TIL that the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was killed after being struck by an arrow poisoned with manchineel sap. A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, "little apple of death". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world.
Vd0k TIL Jose Mujica, famous President of Uruguay, was kept imprisoned by a dictator at the bottom of a well for 2 years.
arw9 TIL Over 500 people have been killed by tasers in the U.S. since 2001
ePZD TIL that after filling up a sheet of paper with text, people used to continue writing over the text at a right angle to save paper
d8dVr TIL, Abraham Lincoln regularly hid important documents and letters under his hat.