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TIL that a vial of insulin costs around $6 to make yet sells for as much as $275 in the United States.

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4kMw5 TIL that evidence of slavery predates written records; the practice has existed in many cultures and can be traced back 11,000 years ago due to the conditions created by the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution.
gMQ1L TIL that eccentric aviator Howard Hughes once paid a gas station employee $156 million after he found Hughes, disheveled and dirty, lying on the highway, and drove him back to his hotel
oRJxo TIL that four young people drowned in a narrow passage in an underground cave in Provo Utah 2005. They think one person tried to turn around and the others were unable to pass her. They knew the cave was unsafe.
6EWaY TIL that about 1 in 600 people have a single horseshoe-shaped, fused super kidney. This congenital condition often goes undiscovered as it is asymptomatic.
jprN TIL Nearly one third of the American labor force works on the weekend