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TIL the Himalayan Honey Bee, largest of the honey bees, makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect

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LXlQ TIL in Ireland, they leave Guinness out for Santa on Christmas Eve
4kaNw TIL in 2011 a Canadian woman survived 48 days in Nevada's wilderness subsisting on candy, trail mix & snow before she heard rescuers in the distance & alerted them. Her husband had left for help after their minivan broke down but never returned & was later discovered having likely died from exposure
XEox8 TIL new buildings in Hong Kong must have 1.6 female toilets for every one male toilet
ONV4 TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II owned both a lion and tiger which he allowed to freely roam around his castle in Prague, despite the fact that they occasionally mauled or killed servants
Wkl5B TIL one of the best selling books of all time in Germany is "Winnetou", about a fictional American Indian and his sidekick Old Shatterhand. Since being released in 1875, it has sold around 200M copies and has had multiple movies and TV shows made.