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TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible.

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XEBpR TIL Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis and has one leg slightly shorter than the other, as a result of that.
XEDZ8 TIL in the late 1800s Australian surveyors had realised the two tallest mountains, Mt. Kosciuszko and Mt. Townsend, were mismeasured, and in fact Mt. Townsend was taller. Instead of rewriting many textbooks the NSW government decided to switch the two names, leaving us with what we have today.
mvMx TIL that key members of the Bush admin leaked the name of a covert CIA operative because her husband revealed that Bush manipulated evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.
0w6G1 TIL that every sweater Mr Rogers wore on his show had been hand knitted by his mother, Nancy Rogers. She made him a new one every Christmas. She died in 1981. When they started wearing thin in the 1990s, replacements were found, but the source has been forgotten.
VdkG TIL: Since 1995, 7-Eleven has provided more than 6 million coupons to police departments across the country to “ticket” young people “caught in random acts of kindness” dubbed Operation Chill.