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TIL the show 'Counterpart' starring J.K. Simmons was cancelled for being "too male"

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Q7rL TIL that Medicare fully covers dialysis (~80k/yr) and kidney transplants (~263k) but only covers three years of immunosuppressive drugs (~18k/yr). This creates a cycle in which patients can’t afford their medicine, the kidney fails, and the patient is put on dialysis - in need of another transplant.
Pmge TIL that Rome’s population peaked at one million people during the reign of Augustus. When the empire fell, this number declined and Rome did not reach one million until the early 1930’s.
grn84 TIL that college football is graced by a player named General Booty. Hailing from a line of athletic Bootys he is the nephew of former Florida Marlin Josh Booty and Minnesota Viking John David Booty.
QyEa TIL that a gorilla learned sign language, can understand spoken English, and scored up to 95 on IQ tests.
ZRBQ TIL that dolphins are not uniquely intelligent; chickens perform similarly on the same intelligence tests used to push for legislation to designate dolphins “non-human persons”, & the evidence that dolphins are capable of complex emotions, such as empathy, have been inconclusive.