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Gila monster venom research helped inspire GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic.

Researchers found a blood sugar and appetite-regulating protein called exendin-4 in the venomous saliva of the Gila monster, and that discovery helped scientists develop the class of drugs that later led to Ozempic.

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A Swedish king tested coffee on twins, but coffee outlasted him.

In the late 1700s, Sweden’s King Gustav III ordered identical twin prisoners — one to drink 3 pots of coffee a day, the other tea — to prove coffee was deadly. Both twins outlived the king and the supervising doctors; the tea-drinking twin passed away first at 83.

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Lavasa, India’s stalled “Italian” hill city.

Lavasa was a planned private “Italian style” city in India, pitched as a roughly $31 billion project for about 300,000 residents, but heavy debt and environmental stop work orders left big parts unfinished and kind of ghost town.