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TIL commercials for prescription drugs were effectively banned from American television until the FDA eased restrictions in 1997

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p8BJ8 TIL due to gravitational time dilation the core of the earth is approx. 2.5 years younger than surface. Higher gravitational potential causes time to move faster. For example, over the course of earth's history, a clock at the top of Mt. Everest would be approx. 39 hours fast than at sea level.
j6rrE TIL that the New York City Subway has the most stops of any metro system in the world.
Mj5A TIL during China’s Ming Dynasty, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease, & from then on were immune to it. Although the technique had a 0.5–2.0% mortality rate, it was better than the diseases 20–30% mortality rate.
xV4mB TIL that mules can't reproduce because they're the sterile offspring of a horse and a donkey
vlyx TIL it is possible to write computer code entirely using white space, in the style of a Shakespeare play, or as an image.