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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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Ypx0W TIL that in 2007, after their Kiowa helicopter was shot down in Iraq, two pilots were rescued when they strapped their bodies to the exterior of an Apache AH-64 helicopter and were flown out of the combat zone.
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