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TIL Honey Never Spoils, you could eat 3,000 year old honey.

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ANQna TIL that Bertha Mulvihill a survivor of the titanic had written stuff like: “What time did you hear of the disaster? I AM SO GLAD I WAS IN IT… The scene was awful. Don’t think me mad to be happy to witness the sight… I am awfully happy-like the night I was born-never felt happier in my life”
egwD TIL that the phrase “writing on the wall” comes from a story in the Bible where a disembodied hand warns of the end of a kings reign.
QNnap TIL Lewis Hamilton has won the British Grand Prix 9 times. The next most successful drivers at the event are Jim Clark and Alain Prost, who have each won it 5 times.
XRAR TIL that Pluto couldn’t even complete a solar orbit between being discovered and being declassified as a planet.
4XajX TIL: Action figures have been made as far back as the first century. Romans made clay figurines of gladiators.