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TIL Testosterone is an anabolic steroid. Testosterone, trenbolone, oxymetholone, methandrostenolone, nandrolone, stanozolol, boldenone, and oxandrolone are some of the anabolic steroids that are most commonly encountered by United States law enforcement.

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0dw7A TIL Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first female elected to Congress (1916). A suffragist who helped get the 19th Amendment passed, was a staunch pacifist, opposing WW1, WW2, and was out marching in protest against Vietnam when she was 61 years old. A badass.
OJ4X TIL Billionaire John D Rockefeller enjoyed giving away dimes to everyone he met, including children. He would give a dime for a good story, or pour dimes over a stain if someone spilled something. Sometimes he would even tease the person by holding back the dime.
ANryx TIL Canada prohibits aircraft from flying faster than Mach 1, but made an exception in 2003 for a Concorde’s final fight, from NYC to Seattle. It set a new speed record of 3 hours, 55 minutes, and 2 seconds.
0w0e5 TIL CNN’s original web page for the OJ Simpson trial is still online. Check out that URL.
60L7 TIL that during the global hop shortage of 2008, the Samuel Adams Beer Company sold 20,000 pounds of their excess hops to over 200 craft breweries, at cost. This helped prevent the breweries from going out of business.