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TIL prescription data is sold to drug companies to target doctors who are not selling their products

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Z8l1D TIL that during World War 2, Ford Motor Company produced a B-24 bomber every 63 minutes
9VeQ TIL that Alan Turing dabbled in embryology, proposing the existence of molecules called morphogens that diffuse within embryos and control how they develop; the people who confirmed his proposal won a Nobel Prize.
n7Yo TIL In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness
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