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TIL that Brazil has twice authorized illegal, local production of patented HIV/AIDS drugs in order to save the lives of its people.

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kOgJm TIL The song commonly called the Can-Can is actually a small section of a larger piece called Orpheus in the Underworld Overture, by Jacques Offenbach in 1858.
PYGRZ TIL Budapest, Hungary declares lomtalanítás or "get-rid-of-junk" days where residents pile mountains of trash in the streets. Scavengers, scrappers, and collectors sift through the piles before sanitation workers clean it all up.
81LV TIL When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Otto Von Bismarck (the man who unified Germany) responded that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
b9wy7 TIL that the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic tool used by scientists to measure how close the world is to a man-made global catastrophe, is currently at “100 seconds to midnight”, the closest it has ever been since its creation in 1947.
vMK7 TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.