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TIL: you can buy a different form of insulin (human insulin) for $25 without insurance or a prescription - compared to $400 with insurance!

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p8bQZ TIL That Cloudflare uses a wall of Lavalamps to provide "unique" randomness for their cryptography
16yMd TIL: In 1992-1993, while on the run from authorities, Pablo Escobar and his family were hiding in the mountains of Colombia. During one freezing night, his daughter complained about being cold. To keep her warm, and without any other material, Escobar burned $2 million worth stacks of cash
8aZd8 TIL Creators of Thalidomide were high ranking nazis and there is a possibility it was tested on prisoners in concentration camp inmates
KONgG TIL of Wille Herold, a private of the German Army in World War II, who posed as a Luftwaffe captain and subsequently organized the mass execution of deserters in a German prison camp in the last days of the war.
bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building