› added 10 years ago

94

TIL US is 5% of world’s population but consumes 75% of the worlds prescription drugs.

Read more drugabuse.gov

via reddit.com

v1gk7 TIL that there are only 4 passports whose holders can enter the world's largest economies [i.e. USA, EU, China, India] without a visa: Japan, Singapore, Brunei, and San Marino
rNEx TIL that Jewel (the singer) almost died and was homeless because she didn’t have medical insurance. The only thing that saved her was a generous doctor.
7pr TIL that a platypus hunts via electricity and has 80 different kinds of venomous toxins.
Q07e TIL that under Operation Dirty Trick, the US would blame Fidel Castro if the 1962 Mercury space flight, which was carrying astronaut John Glenn, crashed.
4dNN TIL Mario wears a hat because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.