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TIL the schizophrenia treatment drug risperidone is as low as 30 cents per month in the developing world, but in the US costs patients $100 to $200.

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a8MVM TIL a 2022 study revealed that Belgium's ban on loot boxes in video games had not been enforced by the Belgium Gaming Commission and that 82 of the 100 highest-grossing iPhone games were still selling loot boxes.
XBER TIL that the ratification of the 19th amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote, came down to the vote of one 24-year-old Tennessee representative who, at the last minute, decided to vote in favor of the amendment due to a note his mother had written asking him to change his vote
mxLXE TIL that the plural of hovercraft is hovercraft
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XEWGP TIL that in Norse mythology, Loki got fucked by a horse and became pregnant, he would then later give birth to the eight legged horse Sleipner which would become Odin's horse