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

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rRWn4 TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back
VMQ7Z TIL The window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces . In England and Wales it was introduced in 1696 and was repealed in 1851, France and Scotland also had window taxes.
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