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TIL In early days of penicillin, it was so expensive it was extracted from patients urine and reused on other patients.

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vOZr TIL US wall sockets don’t come with a switch as standard, and you have to unplug to reduce “standby” wastage.
m1xpR TIL that one of the earliest recorded variations of classic dad phrase "Women: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em" is found in a speech from 102 B.C. by Roman Censor Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, in a speech that would be repeated by Caesar Augustus nearly a century later
PYPaE TIL: A newer study in 2017 discovered the cost of raising a child to 17 in the US averages $233,610 with rural children costing $193,020 and Urban NE costing $264,090 the same study also showed that each additional child is cheaper due to bulk buying and hand me downs.
0N6N TIL Hazrat Muhammad used to buy slaves just so he could set them free.
4kBew TIL the first repeating firearm ever used in a war was the kalthoff repeater during the 1658 Siege of Copenhagen, it boasted a magazine of up to 30 rounds and a rate of fire of up to 1 round per second.