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TIL that a study estimated that pharmaceutical companies spend more money on advertising than they do on research and development.

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WEw8 TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated “To infiniti and beyond” to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.
ZdM4 TIL Engineers in Canada receive an Iron Ring to to remind them to have humility. It is in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice due to incorrect calculations involving iron.