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TIL that most honey sold in stores can come from china where it is diluted with high fructose corn syrup and can be contaminated with chloramphenicol and other illegal animal antibiotics

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v1lYr TIL Anchorites took their religious devotion to extreme levels, vowing to remain walled into a cell for the rest of their lives. This mostly happened to the Middle Ages, but also in modern times, some chose the life of an anchorite.
wMo1 TIL that in 1989, the US military blared AC/DC music at General Manuel Noriega’s compound in Panama for two continuous days. The dictator surrendered.
WkdXX TIL Bomberman was released for the MSX system in the UK under the title “Eric and the Floaters”
JYjpB TIL that in 1825 painter Samuel Morse received a letter which read that his wife was sick. The day after that a new one said that she was dead. When 2 days later he went to his wife, he discovered that she was already buried. Pissed off for the slowness of communications, he invented the Morse code.
VMbjZ TIL Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer solves ancient math problem in prison. Taught himself higher math and solved the age-old math puzzle of number theory involving so-called continued fractions over which Euclid has already racked his brains. He then published the journal in January 2020.