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TIL Honey, and objects immersed in honey, have been preserved for decades and even centuries

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16rpV TIL real doctors from USC Medical Center were recruited to play the doctors who try to save E.T. because Spielberg felt that actors talking about technical medical matters didn’t seem natural.
myEv TIL that in 2013 a 200-year-old law was removed in Paris that forbid women from wearing pants.
J1OO4 TIL Before 9/11, the deadliest building collapse since the Civil War was the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse, which killed 114 people and whose chief cause were rods only rated to handle 30% of the weight the walkway was designed for snapped and fell on a High School Reunion Tea Dance
vP4xr TIL that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was built in 3 stages over centuries but that it had begun leaning from the start, so they simply built each new stage straight up on top of the tilted lower portions; as a result, the 3 sections are leaning at different angles.
WJe8 TIL the city of Rome banned goldfish bowls in 2005, stating them to be “cruel”.