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TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented

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R71el TIL that ships still sinks in great number every year, despite being not cover in the news , and approximately 2K of Seafarers dies every year.
ne81P TIL Coca-Cola has a medical application. It is sometimes used for the treatment of gastric phytobezoars (trapped mass in the gastrointetsinal system). In about 50% of cases studied, Coca-Cola alone was found to be effective in gastric phytobezoar dissolution.
0wggL TIL in 2010 the Navy spent $14 million to alter the appearance of a San Diego naval building that resembles a Nazi swastika. After the project was completed in 2016, it still looked like a swastika.
E1L8o TIL That the production staff of the film 1917 (2019) had to put signs around one of the filming locations warning walkers in the area not to be alarmed at the artificial body parts strewn around.
gMa44 TIL A Lobsters Nervous System is So Similar to a Human's that Human AntiDepressants work on Lobsters