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TIL baking soda is used to legally enhance performance. During intense exercise, the environment around the working muscles becomes acidic, leading to the unwanted "burning" sensation. Supplementing with baking soda helps buffer this acidity, allowing the muscles to sustain longer bouts of exercise.

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mx9WM TIL in 2007, São Paulo introduced the Clean City Law. The result was a near-total ban of billboards, digital signs, ostentatious business signs, and advertising on buses and taxis. It turns out that some massive billboards where hiding whole favelas that few knew existed.
RrM8 TIL that electronic musician Aphex Twin owns a tank, which he acquired through a ‘shady kind of exchange’ - “It’s easy to get carried away when you’re raving down the thoroughfare in a steel-hulled tank…. You don’t even have to signal, people simply get right out of your way.”
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