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TIL as much as 70 percent of the Chinese population is nearsighted……………

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LkePm TIL that Mick Jagger and David Bowie had an affair (according to Bowie's first wife, among others)
4XmmR TIL that Tears for Fears: Everybody wants to Rule the World was inspired by Simple Minds: Waterfront (a mate of mine is in that video..somewhere)
8y9G TIL Daraprim, the drug aquired by Turing Pharmaceutials that has controversially skyrocketed in price, also treats malaria! The drug is listed on the World Health Organization’s List of Esstential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system.
69NMX TIL that Caesar used the knowledge that the calendar was out of alignment and that it was Autumn instead of Winter and thus safe to sail to beat a blockade and win the civil war against Pompey
QJK7d TIL in the U.S. (unlike other countries), the placebo effect is so strong that new painkillers have trouble beating it in clinical trials.