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TIL Game of Thrones has the same budget ($10M/ep) as Friends ($10M/ep)

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0dgPR TIL Red Foxx, whose real last name was Sanford, worked as a dishwasher in Harlem with Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X
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.
69vKW Today I Learned That Cuba Has a Democracy!
bBGp TIL when Michele Bachmann appeared in Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots played a snippet from Fishbone’s 1985 song “Lying Ass Bitch” for her entrance.
70bP TIL computers cannot be programmed to generate a set of truly random numbers on their own. For things like encryption keys and online gaming sites, companies use RANDOM.org which uses atmospheric noise to develop truly random numbers.