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TIL raw unfiltered honey can be almost as pungent as cheese.

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6Evb7 TIL that since the release of Uber in 2011, DUI related carwrecks have gone down by 25-35%.
J1yy1 TIL computer servers are getting so hot and cooling them emits so much carbon (as much as the aviation industry), manufacturers are dunking servers into nonconductive liquid tanks to cool them and help their clients meet power usage effectiveness regulations
dDLrr TIL in the beginning of 20th century, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was ended bc the British Empire refused to accept Japanese proposal of Racial Equality Clause. Turning the later World War 2 moral positions on its head.
VME14 TIL that Polish intelligence officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a resistance operation to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence about the camp. He organized a resistance movement in the camp, sent information to the Allies about what was happening there, and escaped in 1943.
JJK4 TIL early telephones had no ringers and no hang-up hooks. Callers would get the attention of those they were calling by yelling loudly (often, “ahoy!”) into the receiver until someone on the other end noticed.