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TIL 5000 year old honey is perfectly safe to eat

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YplXG TIL It's estimated one in a billion bones gets fossilized. By that calculation the entire fossil legacy of the 320-odd million people alive in the US today will equate to approximately 60 bones – or a little over a quarter of a human skeleton.
16gV7 TIL a member of Michigan's State House of Representatives tried to cover up an affair with another member of the House by having his staff spread the rumor he had sex with a male prostitute. He was later charged with 4 felonies over the incident
9Y9d6 TIL that Fredric Baur, inventor of the Pringles can, had (at his request) his ashes interred in one. It was Original flavor.
0dEkp TIL Rectal temperature is a method coroners can use to determine time of death
n6K7 TIL data recorded from human experimentation carried out in Nazi death camps like Auschwitz is still used by scientists and doctors to this day because no similar level data exists