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TIL: Up until 1993, women were excluded from clinical research and trials.

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K4eR TIL there are thousands of US cities with worse lead contamination levels than Flint, MI.
90Qp TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed just as he was organizing a poor people’s campaign demanding universal basic income and criticizing the government for spending more on war and stifling social programs.
lW8r TIL Students who dated in Middle School are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates.
vn9K TIL Only 16 years elapsed between the first humans to stand at the summit of Mt. Everest and the first humans to stand on the Moon.
7rMnx TIL that Commodus, a Roman emperor often portrayed in media as vile and cruel, would shoot hundreds of animals with arrows and javelins every morning, and fought as a gladiator every afternoon, winning all the fights. He was strangled by his wrestler partner and declared a public enemy post death.