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TIL that sweat doesn’t smell bad. A stinky “body odour” is caused when the skin bacteria feed on sweat. Their waste products are what smell bad!

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WMRd TIL student loan debt doesn’t go away if you declare bankruptcy
dX5B TIL that Nigeria has overtaken Ireland in Guinness sales and is the number 2 consumer of Guinness world wide
DyZV TIL of Stanley Meyer who claimed to invent a water fuel cell which would allow cars to be powered by water. In 1998, while dining with 2 supposed investors, Meyer ran outside saying “They poisoned me” and died.
7r77r TIL The World Anti-Doping Agency restricted the use of caffeine in all Olympic events until 2004. The bar to fail a drug test for caffeine was 12 microgram/ml in urine, which means an Olympic athlete would have ingested the equivalent of 8 espressos in a few hours.
nJPd TIL there are glasses which allow a red-green colourblind person to see colours the way everyone else does.