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TIL of a type of food fraud where honey is cut with cheaper sugars and syrups and then sold as pure honey. This is called ‘Honey Laundering’.

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l77mK TIL 'The Epic of Sundiata' is a historical poem that has been performed for over 780 years across West Africa. Studied in schools of many nations in the region today, it tells how Sundiata Keita founded the Mali Empire (1235-1670). Over centuries it has been translated in Arabic, French and English.
BgEbD TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands
VdNG TIL New Mexico passed a law stating that “Pluto will always be considered a planet while in New Mexican skies”.
4X0Ma TIL that the fourth funnel on the Titanic was fake. It was for appearances only: it made the ship look bigger. It was not connected to the charcoal ovens, but it was connected to the first-class smoking room, making it a sort of oversized kitchen hood.
XJ0X TIL a book entitled Atlanta Nights was written by a group of sci-fi authors to be intentionally bad as a test for the publisher PublishAmerica. It included a chapter containing computer generated random sentences, and chapter 17 and 4 are word for word identical. The publisher accepted it.