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TIL that in the past, some cars had deployable people-catchers that would grab people in the road instead of running them over.

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rN6XM TIL about pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their role in driving up prescription drug prices in the United States
gv4y TIL that the #1 high school in the US, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in which 2/3 of the student body is Asian but only via http://bit.ly/133mWgV
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