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TIL: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are not legally required to reveal in what countries their products are manufactured

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6ExjJ TIL the world's first implantable pacemaker patient, Arne Larsson, went on to receive 26 different pacemakers during his lifetime. He died in 2001, at the age of 86, outliving the inventor as well as the surgeon.
D1alD TIL in 1907 a 9,317 mile automobile race from Peking to Paris was held after a French newspaper asked if anyone could prove their claim that if a man has a car, he can go anywhere. The race was held despite the race committee cancelling the race and the winner won a bottle of champagne.
Y78Dr TIL Edmund Hillary (first person to summit Mt Everest) was scheduled to serve as a guide for a flight over Antarctica on Air New Zealand Flight 901, but canceled to instead embark on a US speaking tour. Flight 901 ended up crashing into Mt Erebus, killing all onboard.
e0g5 TIL, Many ghost sightings can be attributed to Infrasound, a low frequency sound that can cause people to see and hear things that aren’t real.
WlMX TIL Australian funnel web spiders are accidentally toxic given the fact the venom appears to be fairly harmless to many other animals except primates and no primates are native to Australia.