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TIL that someone assembled a statistical “cheat sheet” for you to use should you ever end up on The Price is Right.

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KrgQ TIL over 30% of pharmaceuticals sold in developing countries are counterfeit. Roughly 50% of malaria drugs and up to 30% of antibiotics are counterfeit, mostly originating from India. Over 700,000 people die every year from consuming counterfeit drugs.
oRkpW TIL that the first ever morse code message was “what hath god wrought?”
JYWbQ TIL the show Chuck referenced the Mandela Effect several months before Fiona Broome coined the phrase (time stamp 0:40)
6EvKJ TIL Tilda Swinton is of noble birth with her family being one of the 3 families in England that can trace their unbroken land ownership to before the norman conquest of 1066. She was also a friend and classmate of Lady Diana
M7xD8 TIL that Ulysses Grant was made commander of all Union armies at 41 and President at 46