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TIL - Caffeine is on the NCAA Banned Substance List

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kJ1og TIL Blue whale poop is bright neon orange, from the shells of the krill the whales eat.
4BmR TIL The first man to survive going down Niagara Falls died by slipping on an orange peel
8e6MG TIL in 1945 there were statues created from the measurements of 15,000 American men and women, representing the average size and shape of a U.S. citizen. They were named Normman and Norma.
MerRb TIL That the claim about Fleming not wanting to patent penicillin so that the diffusion could spread faster, is false. He didn't have any means to bring it into mass production; besides, he didn't consider himself the inventor, attributing penicillin to nature.
kBOg TIL The doctor for the Lewis and Clark expedition gave the explorers mercury pills, and since it doesn’t break down this is how scientists trace their steps.