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Lateral with Tom Scott

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Who Invented Penicillin?

Who could have helped out Spanish bullfighting? Like how far back does bullfighting go? Centuries, I assume. So what did he do that changed it? How could a science Nobel laureate help bullfighters? Is it a medical thing? Like he like bullfighters can't get injured. He invented the cast. Who invented penicillin? Antibiotics because you get gored by a bull. A lot of the time the thing that's going to kill you is not the wound. It's going to be the infection. They live to bull again.

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