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TIL 3D printing offers a completely new opportunity for the development of personalized medicines. Introducing 3D printers to pharmacies and hospitals would allow physicians, nurses, and pharmacists to form a dose and delivery system based on the patient’s body size, age, lifestyle, and sex.

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9wPY6 TIL about the Hotel du Lac in Tunis, Tunisia constructed in the 1970s which is an example of Brutalist architecture. The hotel has a cantilevered design resulting in a top floor double the length of the ground floor and has prompted comparisons with the sand crawler vehicle of the Star Wars films.
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