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TIL that Ritalin, a drug used to treat ADHD, is named after Margarita, the wife of the chemist who first synthesized the active ingredient Methylphenidate in 1944. She tried it herself and was pleased to find that it improved her performance when she played tennis.

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j64rM TIL there is only one recorded case of a human adult being killed by coyotes.
rN5Pd TIL the Oakland A's hosted a "Hot Pants Night"-themed baseball game where women in hot pants received free admission, men were given free cameras to take pictures of them, and a competition for "best hot pants" was held on the field.
k6pW TIL that there is a belief among creationist Christians that Charles Darwin on his deathbed recanted his studies on evolution to the evangelist “Lady Hope”. This of course, never happened and the two never actually ever met.
e0wJb TIL the Aquatic Ape Theory suggests that early hominids lived in water part of the time and accounts for our hairless bodies (streamlined for swimming) our upright, two-legged walking (made wading easier) & our layers of subcutaneous fat, which made us better insulated in water (think whale blubber)
DQQgr TIL Roscoe Orman who played Gordon on Sesame Street 1974-2016 also played the pimp Willie in the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite