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TIL that honey never spoils, and archaeologists have found perfectly preserved honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.

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M7NBW TIL that Bell Labs, a research company that has contributed to many significant inventions, including transistors, lasers and solar cells, and whose work has been awared nine Nobel Prizes, is currently owned by Nokia
vDOr TIL All of Roosevelt’s speechwriters were out of town the weekend around the Pearl Harbor attack, so he was left alone to draft what was going to be the most important speech of his presidency.
dgBB TIL that while sleeping our sense of smell is turned off, meaning it cannot alert us to dangers such as a fire since we cannot be awoken by the smell.
XnbD TIL there’s an 80% chance, a “megadrought” lasting 35+ years will hit the American West before 2100.
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