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TIL that mellified man, a substance created when deceased humans were preserved in honey, was used as a medicine in parts of the world until the 19th Century.

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bQv0 TIL While on tour with Motley Crew in 1984, Ozzy Osbourne asked Nikki Sixx for a line of cocaine. After being told there was none, Ozzy grabbed a straw, and snorted ants. Nikki confessed: “From that moment on. We knew there was always someone who was sicker and more disgusting than we were.”
ARrd TIL a Minnesota woman was ordered to pay $222,000 in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs.
epgAJ TIL that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the sound effect of the opening of the ark was created by dragging a toilet lid over some paving.
4Xkro A painting that went for $60 in 1958 sold for a record $450 million at a Christie’s auction in November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a painting. That’s because the piece—known as Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World”—was identified as a work by Leonardo da Vinci in 2011. Painted around the same time as the Mona Lisa, it is one of fewer than 20 known paintings by the Renaissance master.
KvNR TIL Nokia was founded in 1865