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TIL that the FDA allows a 15% variation between generic and name brand meds which can play a role in why women get pregnant while on birth control pills since they are also becoming increasingly low dose.

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yQL1V TIL that Morse Code is neither morse nor a code. It's a cipher, and the version we use/refer to was made by Morse's colleague Alfred Vail.
KYVE TIL that modern knowledge on how the human body reacts to freezing is based almost exclusively on Nazi human experimentation.
lmQa TIL: There are more than 450 different english translations of the bible. They all say things differently and It has been discovered that there are translation errors in all the popular english versions. Many christians may have beliefs based off a mistranslation.
dD9pB TIL that in August 1986 a limnic eruption (the release of dissolved carbon dioxide from a body of water) resulted in the deaths of 1746 people and 3500 livestock living near Lake Nyos, Cameroon
P116J TIL Dame Judi Dench was in The Chronicles of Riddick, because Vin Diesel wanted to work with her. The writers has to re-create a role to fit her: Aereon, an Elemental alien ambassador. She called filming "tremendous fun", though she "had absolutely no idea what was going on in the plot"