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TIL coke with peanuts is a thing

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mx0PR TIL that the founders of Insulin sold the patent to a University for $3, which then gave pharmaceuticals the rights to manufacture Insulin without royalties and to improve the formula in order to make the drug better and accessible to as many diabetics as possible at the lowest cost possible.
Y7Old Today I learned that Germany still uncovers 2000 tons of unexploded bombs from WWII every year. Disposing of the bombs often requires the evacuation of tens of thousand of residents from their homes.
oBZ4r TIL that it is estimated that the world's 25 million tons of spiders kill 400–800 million tons of prey per year.
epvVg TIL Charles Lightoller was sucked back into Titantic, “he was pinned against the grating for some time by the pressure of the incoming water, until a blast of hot air from the depths of the ship erupted out of the ventilator and blew him to the surface.” He later fought in WW1 and WW2.
rR9Yy TIL that in 1899 the last surviving native Tasmanian recorded a song, the only record of her vanished language