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TIL that Bhutan measures its success not by its GDP but by its GNH, or gross national happiness

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oBY4L TIL about Lê Minh Đảo. A South Vietnamese general who led a last stand against the PAVN. After the war ended, he spent 17 years in a "re-education camp" before seeking asylum in the United States, where he worked as a restaurant manager
Y80B TIL Eli Lilly, the company behind the SSRI antidepressant Prozac, hid its clinical trials from the FDA that showed patients who took Prozac were 12 times more likely to commit suicide compared to older antidepressants.
x8n1 TIL that the process of “Bible Code” can be used to “predict” any conspiracy theory you like. One researcher used the method on Moby Dick to predict the assassinations of MLK Jr., JFK, and others.
O7wR TIL that in the Japanese version of Fallout 3, there is no option to rig the Megaton bomb to explode due to the still sensitive memory of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
4XNJb TIL that 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and 90% by the third