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TIL Goldman Sachs released a report questioning whether manufacturing cures is a "sustainable business model"

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69Y6Q TIL Requiem for a Dream was given a NC-17 rating cause of a sex scene involving Jennifer Connelly's character. When Darren Aronofsky refused to change it cause it'd undercut his goal of de-glorifying drug use by showing the worst places it can take a person, his distributor just released it unrated.
jNxOE TIL underwater basket weaving has been used as a pejorative term for excessively easy/useless/niche courses for at least the past 65 years
OGyM4 TIL that polyamory is not prohibited in Judaism, but there was a temporary ban by Rabbenu Gershom in the 11th century which has since expired
v4ED TIL A woman set up a group called “I Need Sex” on facebook which attracted 100 men, 50 of whom she slept with.
D11pV TIL Confucius's family, the Kongs, have the longest recorded extant pedigree chart in the world today. The family tree, now in its 83rd generation,has been recorded since the death of Confucius in 479BC