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TIL that 55% of YA readers are actually adults.

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MJpa TIL that in 1885, Edison offered Tesla $50,000 for redesigning his company’s DC generators. After months of work, Tesla inquired about the payment. Edison said he was only joking, replying, “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor.” Tesla quit his job shortly after.
jpGv TIL Colchicine, a Drug that’s been used safely since 550 AD to treat Gout, has gone from 10 cents a pill to $5 a pill. The FDA decided to offer a monopoly to anyone that would do safety testing. URL Pharma was granted a monopoly after a 1 week trial involving 185 patients and a $45 million fee.
yQBEa TIL that the Hawaiian battle of Kuamo’o featured weapons ranging from slings and stones to a swivel gun mounted on the platform of a double canoe.
OoRER TIL that A&W restaurants in Canada are completely separate from A&W restaurants in the rest of the world, and have been their own entity since 1972.
J1YWQ TIL that an american prisoner named mike kurtz ate soap which made him look sickly and nearing death tricking the governor into pardoning him for his 12 years sentence.