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TIL US taxpayers funded the development of every drug approved in the decade 2010-2019.

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NX7lb TIL in the 18th century, rich people usually owned a large wig for formal occasions and a smaller one to wear at home. Wigs were a status symbol and were also the target of thieves due to how costly some of them were. Those who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their real hair look like one.
ZpwZp TIL Penn Jillette graduated from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
VMrdQ TIL that Francisco Macías Nguema, the first President of Equatorial Guinea, was paranoid of educated people, because he had failed the entrance exams to the colonial civil service three times - so he killed everyone who wore glasses, which he saw as a sure sign of superior educational accomplishment
ZXAG TIL that the stop sign has a unique eight-sided shape so that drivers facing the back of the sign know that oncoming drivers have a stop sign.
d8ng9 TIL that Pandora's Box is a mistranslation. In the original story of Pandora, the container was actually a large storage jar, meaning we should be saying "Pandora's Jar."