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TIL that honeypot ants were a part of the diets of indigenous Australians.

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mx9bY TIL A boneless ham is a ham from which the bone has been removed, after which the ham is tightly pressed into an oval-shaped package. Salt will break down some of the proteins in meat muscle, allowing them to reconnect and link with each other. That's why a boneless ham still appears solid.
oWOY TIL in the 1860’s, a “perpetual motion” machine was demonstrated at the Paris Exposition. Visitors were invited to try and stop the wheel, which, unbeknownst to them, was the very action needed to “charge” the wheel back up.
M59m TIL Ian Fleming’s fictional car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was again built in 2002 at a cost of £750,000, making it the most expensive stage prop ever according to the Guinness World Records.
OG5Je TIL that the famous scene in "Apocalypse Now" where Martin Sheen’s character has a drunken breakdown in a hotel room, was not scripted. One day, Sheen got completely shitfaced and ordered the crew to film him. He got aggressive and started punching out mirrors. Francis Ford Coppola kept rolling.
vaLL TIL A woman jumped off of the Eiffel Tower and landed on a car and survived, then later married the car’s owner.