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TIL about pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their role in driving up prescription drug prices in the United States

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OoBN4 TIL That the equals sign ( = ) was invented in 1557 after Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde got tired of having to write "is equal to" over and over again.
9YL5D TIL: Laugh tracks were the invention of a sound engineer named Charles Douglass, whose Laff Box machine helped him corner the market during the golden age of TV.
woVrP TIL Ronald Reagan started eating Jelly Belly's to quit smoking and kept it up so much that during his terms as President he would have more than 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month
lolEG TIL Edgar Allan Poe died after being found wandering around Baltimore dirty, delirious and wearing somebody else’s clothes. He was never coherent enough to explain how he came to be in such a condition before he died
oBKW TIL Rage Against The Machine’s first album has such a high level of production that it is used to test speakers and other audio equipment