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TIL Scientists have turned spinach into beating human heart tissue

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kJW71 TIL that honeybees who consume a nectar that includes grayanotoxins can produce a special honey called "mad honey." Ingesting this honey causes violent drunkenness and disorientation.
GYl81 TIL of Senator Birch Bayh, the only person since the Founding Fathers to have authored two Constitutional amendments.
VMVMp TIL there is a Russian version of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia called "В Москве всегда солнечно" - "It's Always Sunny in Moscow". The gang runs a bar named Philadelphia.
Jwl4 TIL there is an alternate version of Lord of the Rings told from the bad guys’ point of view
d0p8 TIL of Vexations, a piano piece meant to be played 840 times in a row, that takes roughly 18 hours to play and one man who attempted to solo it quit after 15 hours because he was hallucinating.