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TIL - Caffeine is on the NCAA Banned Substance List

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9w4mG TIL that a lottery scratch game called Cool Cash was pulled from the market after player complaints. The scratch card made ti that you get money if you got lower then the target temperature and people were saying they didn't get any money even though they got -6 or -7 and the temperature was -8.
b9ZmE TIL Blues Brothers Movie set a world record (at the time) for destroying 103 cars in a film.
neaMG TIL that rhino horn is NOT considered an aphrodesiac in Chinese "medicine", and that this is a misinterpretation of Chinese texts. However, due to the repetition of this misinterpretation in the West, people in Viet Nam are starting to believe the rumor, and demand there is surging because of it.
WkM6B TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.
6rMZ TIL it’s a faux pas in Russia to give your date a dozen flowers; You give an odd number of flowers for a happy occasion, and an even number for condolences.